: Is it possible to reference two anchor texts hyperlinks for the same paragraph in Indesign Is it possible to reference two anchor texts hyperlinks for the same paragraph in Indesign? I can create

@BetL875

It's certainly possible, and I'm not able to find a problem with it in any of the current versions (CS6, CC, CC 2014) of InDesign. There were some issues with cross-references that spanned documents using the Book feature, but I believe they were fixed somewhere between CS4 and CS5.

Do make sure that your text anchors don't overlap (each should be a different bit of text in the paragraph), which would probably cause all kinds of confusion, but other than that there should be no issue.

Be sure that you select "Text Anchor" and not "Paragraph" when setting up the Hyperlink Destination:



and when you invoke Type > Hyperlinks & Cross-References > Insert Cross-Reference you must also ensure that "Link To" is set to "Text Anchor," not "Paragraph" in the dialog:



If you still only see one text anchor in your dropdown, export your document to IDML (File > Export > InDesign Markup) and create a new document from that. If even that doesn't do it, delete your InDesign preferences file (hold down Ctl-Alt-Shift or Cmd-Opt-Shift while starting InDesign and click "Yes" in the dialog) and try again.

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