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Click here in Ebook - To another part of book..

by Intrepreneur
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I'm using openoffice to compile my product. I can't figure out how do I add a Click Here that references to another part of the product.

So to skip from the top of chapter 1 to the top of chapter 4.

I've tried a couple of things but nonne of them have worked.

All these difficulties that slow you down lol.

I look forward to your responses.

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author kemdev
    I think this is right...

    Make each part you want to link to a different heading. You can do
    this by pressing F11 and picking whichever heading you want.

    Then, make your linking words a link. Under the link tab, click on
    'Document.' Go to target in document, open up your headings, and
    pick the one you made.

    All the best,

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  • Profile picture of the author charlesburke
    Easy to do. Let's say you want to put a table of contents at the start of your document or ebook, and have each TOC item link to a chapter.

    First go to chapter 1 title and highlight the chapter title. Next click on Insert in the top menu bar, then click bookmark. You might type in "chap1" as the bookmark name. Click OK. That inserts your first bookmark. Place all the bookmarks you want.

    Next you create hyperlinks that connect to those bookmarks. For example, if it's your table of contents, highlight a chapter listing in the TOC, click on "insert" and click on "hyperlink." Open the "target in document" box and select the bookmark that matches the hyperlink you're creating. Click "apply" and "close" and again "apply" and "close" to set the link.

    Repeat for each of the hyperlinks. Hope this helps.

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  • Profile picture of the author The Pension Guy
    That's a painfully long and complicated way to do a TOC.

    In Word (because most people use Word when writing documents) just click Insert > Reference > Index and Table of Content... and then follow the instructions in the dialog box.
    Prerequisite: you need to be able to format* your chapter titles as "headings" (h2, h3, h4 etc.) to get a hierarchical TOC.

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    * not as common as you would think... I've met 'professional writers' who didn't know about this feature in Word and they were using the software for 10+ years...
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Diamond
      Charles, you're doing it the hard way in OpenOffice. It actually works more or less the same as in Word. You can create a TOC in one step by inserting a TOC object and specifying the treatment of each level of heading (H1, H2, etc.).

      When you do that, it automatically creates a bookmark for each referenced heading, which you can then refer to in other hyperlinks throughout the document also, as Intrepreneur originally asked.

      Just highlight the text as if you're going to create an external hyperlink, but specify a link in the current document instead, and it should show you a list of existing bookmarks to choose.

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  • Profile picture of the author charlesburke
    Holy cow! I could've been doing it so much easier... thanks for the tip, guys.

    Cheers, Charles
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