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Working with cross-references

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Working with cross-references

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I'm laying out this catalog and I want to refer my readers to a section later on, something on another page. But here is the problem, the name of that section or its page number in the catalog might change. So what do I do? Well fortunately, InDesign has a feature called Cross-references. You can use Cross-References whenever you want some text to point to some other text. Here's how to do it. I'm going to zoom in on this text in the lower right corner of this page, and I'd like to place my Cross-Reference right after this word Roux. So I'll double-click on there to switch the Type Tool, place the cursor in there, and now to add my cross-reference, I need my Cross-References panel. Unfortunately, there isn't really a Cross-references panel, you have to use the Hyperlinks panel. And you can get to it in two ways. You can go to the Window Menu and choose Interactive > Hyperlinks, or you could choose it from the Type & Tables sub-menu and you choose Cross-References. Either way, the…

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