Linking to another part of a document
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- What Is Writer?
- The Writer interface
- Changing Document Views
- Moving Quickly through a Document
- Working with documents
- Working with text
- Selecting Items That Are Not Consecutive
- Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Finding and Replacing Text and Formatting
- Inserting Special Characters
- Inserting Dashes and Non-breaking Spaces and Hyphens
- Setting Tab Stops and Indents
- Changing the Default Tab stop Interval
- Checking Spelling and Grammar
- Using Built-in Language tools
- Using AutoCorrect
- Using Word Completion
- Using AutoText
- Formatting Text
- Formatting Pages
- Adding Comments and Graphics to a Document
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Creating Indexes and Bibliographies
- Adding Images and Other Graphics
- Adding Tables, Spreadsheets, and Charts
- Adding a Movie or Sound
- Printing
- Using Mail Merge
- Tracking Changes to a Document
- Using Fields
- Linking to another part of a document
- Using Master Documents
- Creating Fill-in Forms
Linking to Another Part of a Document
If you type in cross-references to other parts of a document, those references can easily get out of date if you reorganize the order of topics, add or remove material, or reword a heading. Writer provides two ways to ensure that your references are up-to-date, by inserting links to other parts of the same document or to a different document:
- Hyperlinks
- Cross-references
The two methods have the same result if you Ctrl + click the link when the document is open in Writer: you are taken directly to the cross-referenced item. However, they also have major differences:
- The text in a hyperlink does not automatically update if you change the text of the linked item (although you can change it manually), but changed text does automatically update in a cross-reference.
- When using a hyperlink, you do not have a choice of the content of the link (for example text or page number), but when using a cross-reference, you have several choices, including bookmarks.
- To hyperlink to an object such as a graphic, and have the hyperlink show useful text such as Figure 6, you need to either give such an object a useful name instead of leaving it as the default name (Graphics6), or you need to use the Hyperlink dialog to modify the visible text. In contrast, cross-references to figures with captions automatically show useful text, and you have a choice of several variations of the name.
- If you save a Writer document to HTML, hyperlinks remain active, but cross-references do not. (Both remain active when the document is exported to PDF.)
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