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I am having trouble finding hyperlinks and bookmarks in the new Pages 5.0. None of my old documents show their bookmarks or hyperlinks!
And there seems to be no way to add or link them.
Command-K only links to website.
This is a major problem for me - I am a writer and all of my hyperlinks to chapters and sections are gone.
Anyone know anything?
Supposedly, links are automatically created when a Table of Contents is inserted. I'm not on my Mac to check this.
Add a table of contents
You can add an automatically updating table of contents to any document. Table of contents entries are links, so clicking one takes a reader directly to the page.
Some Pages templates already include a table of contents, which you can edit. You can also add a table of contents, then edit it to specify which parts of the document you want it to include.
Pages uses paragraph styles to generate the table of contents. If you aren’t using them to format text in your document, you won’t be able to generate an automatic table of contents.
Keg55, re lamest ever TABLE OF CONTENTS suggestion: open any pages document without TOC somehow added to what-template-where. Use menu Insert > Table of Contents and notice how everything is greyed out. Useless. How can you expect an app that can't link to bookmarks, or even link to local school and office files, how can you expect that app to build a TOC? Without normal text editor linking capabilities, Pages is stretching it to earn the label postcard app. No, not even a postcard app, really, since it can't add content to interact with local resource, and online resource (excepting HTML page). I think the Pages Team got spooked, when the 3D printers started working - they all jumped out the window. Wating for Apple to hire at least one Team member with the resume item, "Programmer". For now, Pages is drifting in La-La Land.
Not to worry. The Apple operating system actually allows linking. So you can use some other editor. Here are some that allow normal bookmark linking...
Notepad++, BB Edit, UltraEdit, EmEditor, Sublime, Word, Text Editor, Boxer Text Editor, Ultra Edit and so on (and on, and on). Comprehensive internal and external links in technical terms are a must have for application compiler integration, and as noted (or assumed) in Wikipedia, you have at least a hundred Pages replacements to pick from on this page, Comparison of Text Editors (see Programming, Compiler Integration), and on this page, Comparison of Word Processors (see Characteristics, Cross Referencing).
Please allow me to digress for a minute. A basic WYSIWYG work-flow feature seems to be missing, or improperly applied in Pages. Not that I am extra brilliant or anywhere beyond that amazing SFU Programming 101, but it seems natural (to include with bookmarks and local file linking) a one-click style pane. Or even just a simple drop down text menu style elements pane in Pages (which would fit so well with El Capitan Pages): for example, including selection text or tiles for titles, sub-titles, headings, block quotes, paragraphs, normal, code, content (e.g., image) block. Style pane in Word even includes painless right-click on style pane item to 'Update style to match selection...' Idea, Apple, idea! Sublime includes the same thing, in a programmer's key press. Yes, inline, work-flow styling method using standard style items, including user work-flow updating is pretty much across the board now, integrated in user interfacing with that linking, so missing in Pages. What did you say that style pane is doing?
Excuse me, if my rant seems a little aggressive. I did see a $29 price tag on Pages somewhere. Yes, it has a polished look. But no. Without standard linking capability, this app is going to disappoint digital authors. Apple has received tens of thousands, perhaps millions of requests. Why was that basic linking capability removed? One can only wonder.
Notlimey, (see post above) is correct in his adaptation of the ever-amazing Apple system. Using iBooks Author (unlike pages) one can import DOCX with bookmarks in place. Likewise, Pages can be used as a primitive sort of mock-up tool. We all wish Pages was a little more robust.
If you click on the upper left of a page, then click on Insert-Table of Contents- it appears.
In any case, I have begun writing in iBooks Author from the start, rather than in Pages and copying to iBooks Author.
I would agree with that approach entirely. Top left corner of page is not effective here. Another weakness of pages is inability to import professional DOCX files, which are numerous around my office. iBook Author makes DOCX import effortless. Pages also imports into iBook Author.
Reviving pages as a sort of iBook Author template utility. 😁
Hyperlinks and bookmarks missing in Pages 5.0?
