Working with bookmarks
Bookmarks enable you to link to a specific location in a help topic from within
the same topic, or from another file.
- Suppose you have a very long help topic and you want users to read
information that appears in the middle of it, or you are in the middle of a
long topic and want to give users a way to get back to the beginning. You can
link to information anywhere in a topic by marking the exact location you want
a user to jump to.
- Help system or Web site authors can create topics that begin with a "hot"
list of the most important information contained in the file. Rather than have
the user scroll through the file to get to those topics, the author makes each
item in the list a bookmark that takes the user directly to the item they
click. An example is at the top of the page: How to...
- Bookmarks also are used with Back to top links, text or buttons that
help a user navigate from the middle of a file back to the beginning. A table
of contents or index entry can also jump to a bookmark.
- Put the cursor at the position you want to Bookmark. Optionally select
text, which will be used as starting point for the bookmark name
- On the Insert tab, in the Links
group, Press push button Bookmark
- Enter or edit the bookmark name and press the [OK] button.
The bookmark is added. If you selected text this will appear as
underlined.
| Tips |
- Choosing a good bookmark name will make it easier to find when
linking to it.
- Selecting text at the position you want to Bookmark will be used will
save you time thinking of and typing bookmark name.
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After inserting a bookmark at a position in your HTML file, you can link to
it:
- Type the link text
- Select the link text
- On the Insert tab, in the Links
group, select from 'Hyperlink'
popup
the Hyperlink to Local Bookmark menu item.
The Select Bookmark dialog appears.
- Select the bookmark you want to link to and press [OK].
You can also double-click the selected item.