Bookmarks

Bookmarks are used to select portions of text, graphics or other objects within your document so as to be easily accessible at a later date.  You can also use bookmarks to create Cross References and Indexes.

To create a Bookmark follow the steps below.

  1. Select the text or object that you want Bookmarked.
  2. From the Edit menu select the Bookmark option.
  3. The Bookmark dialogue box opens.
    1. Bookmark Name        Type in a name for the selected text or objects.  Use a name that can be easily recognisable for that bookmark.  The name can have letters, numbers and the underscore character _ (Shift + -) and can be up to 40 characters long with No spaces.
    2. Sort By                        These options allow you to sort your bookmarks alphabetically (Name) or by the order in which they appear in the document (Location).
  4. Once you have typed in a name for the Bookmark, click on the OK button and the Bookmark is added to the list.
  5. The Delete key will remove selected Bookmark names (not the text or objects selected in the document.
  6. The Go To button will move you to the selected Bookmark’s highlighted text or object in the document.  F5 will also move to the area of a Bookmark when selected from the drop down list in the Go To dialogue box when the Bookmark option has been chosen.

 

Viewing Bookmarks

You can view your Bookmarks in a document by selecting Options from the Tools menu and in the View Tab selecting the option Bookmarks.  This will place brackets similar to these [  ] around any Bookmarks in your document.


Click to Close Window