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Book file and text anchors

Explorer ,
Jun 08, 2025 Jun 08, 2025

Thanks to the help I got yesterday, I have now knitted a book. I'm going to have some cross-references from one chapter to another. Within a single document, I know how to do that. I create a text anchor and then hyperlink to it from another place in the document.

Today I created a new text anchor in one chapter. When I went to the other chapter to create the hyperlink, the text-anchor box did not show any text anchors. (That chapter had no internal links.)

So I think my question is how I get the indb file to "know" the text anchors in each chapter. Is there a way to import them?

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Community Expert , Jun 08, 2025 Jun 08, 2025

Hi Don:

 

After you add the text anchor to one file, open the other file, click an insertion point where to want to add the cross-reference and choose:

  • Link to: Text Anchor
  • Document: the first file
  • Text Anchor: the name of the anchor you added to the first file

 

2025-06-08_11-20-30.png

 

~Barb

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Community Expert ,
Jun 08, 2025 Jun 08, 2025

Hi Don:

 

After you add the text anchor to one file, open the other file, click an insertion point where to want to add the cross-reference and choose:

  • Link to: Text Anchor
  • Document: the first file
  • Text Anchor: the name of the anchor you added to the first file

 

2025-06-08_11-20-30.png

 

~Barb

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Explorer ,
Jun 08, 2025 Jun 08, 2025

Oh, thank you! That's so simple and straightforward. I would have figured it out myself . . . yeah, in another century or two.

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Jun 08, 2025 Jun 08, 2025
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Totally understandable, Don. That's why we're here to help!

~Barb 

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