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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production

115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production

When you are working with a long document in InDesign, it can be sometimes difficult to navigate your way through it. So, you keep going back to certain points somewhere deep in the middle of the document. And this is not a small document, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You can see it's 107 pages, 54 spreads. And wouldn't it be nice if we had something like, say PDF bookmarks? I'm jumping over to a PDF of the same document and opening up the Bookmarks panel. And here you can see that every chapter has its own bookmark and I can easily jump back and forth. Well, you can do that in InDesign. Let's just come back here, and we'll open up the Bookmarks panel which is underneath the Window menu. Go down to Interactive and choose Bookmarks. Or, if you switch to the Book workspace, you'll see that bookmarks is part of that as well. To add a bookmark manually, you can go to any page, like let's say This one right here, Pool of Tears. Click an insertion point or select a frame and then click…

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