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How to Add a Text Anchor

Explorer ,
Jun 29, 2012 Jun 29, 2012

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I've just discovered the Cross References feature in InDesign but I want my cross reference to point to a Text Anchor but for the life of me I cant work out how to add a Text Anchor.

So how do you add a text anchor?

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Community Expert , Jun 29, 2012 Jun 29, 2012

Highlight the text you want to be the anchor. Open the Hyperlinks panel. From the panel munu choose New Hyperlink Destination and the dialog should come up with Text Anchor and your highlighted text filled in. Click OK.

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Jun 29, 2012 Jun 29, 2012

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Insert your cursor where you want the text anchor.

Open the hyperlinks panel menu and select New Hyperlink Destination.

Select text anchor from the Type” dropdown.

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Jun 29, 2012 Jun 29, 2012

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Highlight the text you want to be the anchor. Open the Hyperlinks panel. From the panel munu choose New Hyperlink Destination and the dialog should come up with Text Anchor and your highlighted text filled in. Click OK.

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Apr 19, 2018 Apr 19, 2018

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Today I was struggling with this feature too! Thank you so much for your answer - most helpful one today. Thank you!!

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Community Beginner ,
May 01, 2020 May 01, 2020

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For anyone else trying to do this and not able to find New Hyperlink Destination... Go to the Window menu and the Interactive window. That's where you'll find the Hyperlink panel referenced above.

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Jun 16, 2020 Jun 16, 2020

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Thank you, I thought I was losing my mind on the "Links" window. 

 

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New Here ,
Feb 16, 2021 Feb 16, 2021

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Thank you for the clarification. It was driving me crazy!

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Mar 29, 2021 Mar 29, 2021

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Yes, the lack of clarification was driving me crazy too! Thanks so much, I can finally finish this task!!

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May 18, 2021 May 18, 2021

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Thank you!!

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Aug 04, 2021 Aug 04, 2021

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Thank you!!! I spent about 15 minutes trying every way possible to find that.

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Aug 13, 2021 Aug 13, 2021

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Ooof help! My hyperlinks panel does not show a "New Hyperlink Destination" option anywhere. I'm stuck!

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Sep 26, 2021 Sep 26, 2021

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On the right top corner of your Hyperlinks -panel, there is "3-lines" -button (more options). Click that and the 5th option is "New Hyperlink Destination...".

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Mar 16, 2024 Mar 16, 2024

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Explorer ,
Aug 12, 2022 Aug 12, 2022

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This is all well and good but I would like to see text anchors added to the Hyperlinks panel. I am running ID 17.3 on a PC and only true hyperlinks (in my case to URLs) in my document are listed in the panel. This might improve use of this feature when the text anchor is used multiple times in a document. It would be a great new feature.

Marie

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New Here ,
May 03, 2013 May 03, 2013

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Create the hypelink destination first then the cross reference.  Go to the text you want to refer to, select the text that you are referencing (the destination) then Create a new hyperlink destination the selected text will be the name of the destination link. This make life much easier later when creating the cross reference.

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New Here ,
Dec 22, 2019 Dec 22, 2019

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Dear Sir,

I have done text anchor cross-references. But there two questions left for me: 1. How is this possible to have a mutual cross-back on the two words crossed link together and the second question: why the blue links which are cross-refernced are not clickable in pdf (interactive) on smart devices? 

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Dec 22, 2019 Dec 22, 2019

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What version of InDesign are you using?

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Explorer ,
Jan 13, 2022 Jan 13, 2022

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Hi I recently upgraded to the Creative Cloud vwrsion of  InDesign so if not the most current then pretty close...the issue is that I can make the Anchor and then I can create the link to it (they are in different documents) but when I print the Interactive PDF nothing happens when I click the link (I do get the hand pointer, so it knows it is 'supposed' to be a link, it just doesn't go anywhere).

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Wendy

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New Here ,
Aug 25, 2022 Aug 25, 2022

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To make the hyperlinks work in the PDF, go to File > Export to make the PDF, then you have to check "Include Hyperlinks".

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