Word 2013 Bible

CHAPTER 19

Enhancing Navigation with Bookmarks, Hyperlinks, and Cross-References

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Working with bookmarks
• Creating bookmarks
• Using Word-created bookmarks
• Displaying and hiding bookmarks
• Fixing broken bookmarks
• Adding an automatic hyperlink
• Creating hyperlinks to jump within and between documents
• Creating a hyperlink that starts an email message
• Creating cross-references to headings, numbered items, bookmarks, footnotes, endnotes, and more

This chapter dials you in to the great tools for navigating in and referencing other locations within a long document. You'll learn how to use a bookmark to create a location you can jump to from any location. You'll learn how to add hyperlinks that enable you to jump to another document location or another document, or even spawn a new email message. Finally, the chapter explains how cross-references build on bookmarks, by enabling you to denote relevant information found elsewhere in the document.

Working with Bookmarks

A bookmark is a way of naming a point or a selection in a Word document so that it you can easily locate it or refer to in some way. Bookmarks can be used for something as simple as a place marker. You could create bookmarks for:

• Key headings in a document to make them easier to go to
• Specific objects such as all the tables of data in a scientific document that users may want to find quickly
• Locations you may need to reference in a macro (Chapter 32, “Macros: Recording, Editing, and Using Them,” covers macros) ...