Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated April 8, 2017)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Word allows you to easily create hyperlinks from one document to another. What if you want to create a hyperlink to a specific page in another document, however?
You can't specify a page number in a hyperlink; Word provides no way to do it. You can, however, create a hyperlink to a bookmark in another document. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Bookmark dialog box.
Figure 2. The Insert Hyperlink dialog box.
That's it. If you click the hyperlink in document A, document B should be displayed on the page you want.
There is one thing to remember about this approach. How Word pages its documents depends on a lot of variables. For instance, if you insert the bookmark at the beginning of page seven of document B, and then you later do editing of the document that affects the paging, the bookmark will no longer be at the top of page seven. The upshot: If you change the paging in document B, make sure you move the bookmark to the correct position for the page you want to display.
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2021-06-05 20:34:40
Elissa
Worked perfectly, just as outlined!
2020-10-23 06:20:31
Craig Campbell
Is it possible to create a hyperlink from a non-Word document (e.g. a web page) into a specific heading in a Word 365 document? The document is on SharePoint, so i can get a URL and have appended #<bookmark name>, but the hyperlink just took me to the top of the document.
2019-05-16 11:57:26
Leticia
Does this work if I want to link a Word table of contents to specific bookmarks in PDF documents?
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