Add bookmarks and cross-references in Pages on iPad
You can add bookmarks to your document so you can quickly navigate to specific content—for example, to pages with charts that show research data, or to the beginning of each chapter. Bookmarks don’t show in the document.
To give readers one-click access to information, you can add cross-references to bookmarks. For example, if you bookmarked a page with an important table, you could link to that page from any text in your document where you refer to that table. You can also add links to content formatted with specific paragraph styles. This makes it easy to link to chapter headings, subheads, and so on.
You can add bookmarks only in word-processing documents.
Add a bookmark
Select the text you want to bookmark, or place the insertion point just before the text you want to bookmark.
Note: You can bookmark body text only, not text in a text box, shape, table, chart, header, or footer.
Tap
in the shortcut bar above the keyboard, then tap Bookmark.
If you don’t see a Bookmark option, your document may be a page layout document, which can’t use bookmarks.
Rename or remove a bookmark
You can rename or delete a bookmark without affecting the bookmarked text in the document.
Tap
, then tap Bookmarks.Tap Edit, then do one of the following:
Rename a bookmark: Select the bookmark text in the bookmark list, then make your changes.
Note: When you edit text in your document that’s bookmarked, the name of the related bookmark is updated automatically. If you rename a bookmark, automatic updating is disabled for that bookmark.
Remove a bookmark: Tap the red Delete button next to the bookmark, then tap Delete.
If you delete a bookmark that has a cross-reference link to it, the link is broken. Be sure to remove the cross-reference link from the text.
Tap Done when you’re finished.
Jump to a bookmark
Tap
, then tap Bookmarks.Tap a bookmark in the list.
The document scrolls to the bookmark, and the bookmark is briefly highlighted on the page.
Link to a bookmark
You can select any text in your document and turn it into a cross-reference link to a bookmark you’ve already created.
Select the text you want to turn into a link.
Tap
in the shortcut bar above the keyboard, then tap Link.In Link Settings, tap Link To, then tap Bookmark.
On the next row, tap Bookmark, then tap the bookmark you want to link to.
To verify the bookmark location, tap Back, then tap Go To Bookmark, or tap the document to close the settings.
Link to text with a paragraph style applied
You can create links to bookmarks that Pages suggests, which are based on the paragraph styles used in your document. For example, if you used the Heading paragraph style for your chapter headings, the suggested bookmarks include all of the chapter headings in your document, making it easy for you to link to one. You can specify which paragraph styles appear in the suggestions.
Select the text you want to turn into a link.
Tap
in the shortcut bar above the keyboard, then tap Link.In Link Settings, tap Link To, then tap Bookmark.
In the next row, tap Bookmark, then tap a destination.
If the destination you want isn’t in the list of suggested bookmarks, do one of the following:
Tap Manage Suggestions at the bottom of the menu.
Tap Set Up Suggestions at the bottom of the menu.
If you don’t use paragraph styles, you may not see suggestions.
Tap the paragraph style that the desired bookmark uses.
Tap Back at the top of Edit Suggestions to return to the bookmark list.
Tap Bookmark, then tap the destination you want to link to.
To verify the bookmark location, tap Back, then tap Go To Bookmark, or tap the document to close the settings.
Deactivate a link
Tap the link in your document.
Tap Link Settings, then tap Remove Link.
To add cross-references in a page layout document, you can add links to pages.