Thursday, May 3, 2012

Hyperlink to Text Anchors Within Your Document

Big ups to Darcy for asking this question: "My project has a list of the the contents on the bottom. Is there anyway that I can click on a word, say 'resume' and it will jump down to the resume within the document?"

What you'll do is create a hyperlink to an anchor, the anchor being the destination. It's a two step process:

First, open the Hyperlink panel. Then:

1. Create the Text Anchor:
Select the text that will be your anchor
Go to the Hyperlinks panel and pull down the options menu.
Choose New Hyperlink Destination > Text Anchor

2. Create the Hyperlink:
Select the text or graphic that will be hyperlinked
Go to the Hyperlinks panel and pull down the options menu.
Choose New Hyperlink > Link to Text Anchor
Specify Destination, Style and Appearance

I figured this out using Adobe CS4 so the exact menu wording may differ a little from CS5 that we have in lab. For further clarification, dig into the online help for Interactive Documents for CS5.5  at

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSFE8A2A9F-6111-416c-85D7-6C51F202E8ED.html

and read the section on Hyperlinks.

PASS IT ON!