Add bookmarks and link to them in Pages on Mac
You can add bookmarks to your document so you can quickly navigate to specific content. Bookmarks don’t show in the document, but you can see them in the Bookmarks tab in the Document sidebar.
To give readers quick access to information, you can add links to bookmarks. For example, if you bookmark a page with an important table, you can link to that page from any text in your document that refers 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; however, you can link to pages in page layout documents.
Add a bookmark
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document, then 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.
In the Document
sidebar on the right, click the Bookmarks tab.If you don’t see the Bookmarks tab, your document may be a page layout document, which doesn’t support bookmarks.
Click Add Bookmark.
The bookmark appears in the bookmarks list. To go to the bookmark in your document, click the bookmark in the list.
Jump to a bookmark
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document with existing bookmarks, then click Document
in the sidebar on the right, then click the Bookmarks tab.Click the name of the 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 link it to a bookmark you’ve already created.
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document with existing bookmarks, then select the text you want to turn into a link.
Do one of the following:
Click the Bookmark pop-up menu, then choose the bookmark you want to link to.
Click the Go to Bookmark button to verify the bookmark location, or click outside the Bookmark controls to close them.
in the Link to and manage suggested bookmarks
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.
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document, then select the text you want to turn into a link.
Do one of the following:
Click the Bookmark pop-up menu, then do one of the following:
Choose a suggested bookmark: Choose a destination under Suggested Bookmarks.
Generate new suggested bookmarks: Choose Set Up Suggestions or Manage Suggestions (at the bottom of the pop-up menu), select the checkbox next to the paragraph styles you want to use for bookmarks, then click Done. To link to a new suggestion, click the Bookmark pop-up menu again, then choose a destination.
Click the Go to Bookmark button to verify the bookmark location, or click outside the Bookmark controls to close them.
To quickly set up suggested bookmarks, you can also choose Edit > Manage Bookmark Suggestions (from the Edit menu at the top of the screen).
Rename or remove a bookmark
You can rename or delete a bookmark without affecting the bookmarked text in the document.
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document with an existing bookmark, click Document
in the sidebar on the right, then click the Bookmarks tab.Do one of the following:
Rename a bookmark: Double-click its name in the list, then type a new name.
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 for that bookmark no longer works.
Remove a bookmark: Click its name in the bookmark list, then press the Delete key on your keyboard.
If you delete a bookmark that has a link to it, the link is broken. Be sure to remove the link from the text.
Remove a link to a bookmark
Go to the Pages app
on your Mac.Open a document with an existing bookmark, then click the link in your document.
Click Edit, then click Remove.