Click OK.Ĭlick this image to see a larger version.ī. Click All to put hyperlinks on all levels of the TOC. To make the hotlinks, click the Entries tab of the window, click to the left of the E and click Hyperlink, and click after the E and click Hyperlink again. To create a hotlinked table of contents, in your Writer document choose Insert > Indexes and Tables > Indexes and Tables. There's a table of contents that I generated automatically, and made hotlinked to each section, automatically. Here's what I did in the document-I didn't do a huge amount of cross-references but I did do enough to demonstrate the power, I hope.Ī.
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Here's a document I made using only, created the linked TOC automatically and the links between sections manually using only, and generated the PDF using only. In 2.0, the links you make in transfer over to and work in the PDF. Or even easier, just click the PDF icon on your Standard toolbar.ģ. From a Writer text document, Calc spreadsheet, Impress presentation, or Draw drawing, with. You can make a PDF document from your document. Have a link that says "Back to top" that appears in your footer, and you've got great navigation.Ģ. You can put links in headers and footers. You can automatically generate a linked table of contents, so that anyone clicking on an item in the TOC is taken directly to that heading in the document.
(You can link to another PDF document, but not to another bookmark within a PDF document.) within your document or within another document. You can link any text or graphic to any heading, graphic, table, etc. You can just type "Click here to go to the web page," select some text, and link it to any web site you want. What Makes Me Think Is Such a Great Publishing Tool?ġ.
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I'm not talking web design-I'm just saying, if you work for the city government and need to post long pages of forms for people to download, or if you need to publish reports that people can easily find their way around in, or if you're a technical writer and create user manuals with the usual thousands of links within the document and to other documents-you might be good to go with only.
If you ever put any documents on the web, you might need only one application in your life:. Note: This blog has two related posts, on PDF in general and on Impress and links.