Check the sample file I added to my original answer. The “jump” part should work out of the box.
Thanks for this. I’m probably dense as I’ve been at this for over 2 days. I did this last year and remember having a problem with it I keep thinking it should be something I’m missing that it’s ridiculously simple. I’m not sure what you mean about the “dummy” text that’s the [number] and how to get to to jump. I had it jumping backwards with the bottom reference filling the [1] spot and also where it’s supposed to go.
“Dummy text” is just a filling, nothing important. Do you see the numbers between brackets in the first paragraph bellow the section heading? Those numbers are cross-reference fields and should display a gray background (that background is not printed nor exported to PDF). Click on any of the numbers and the cursor will jump to the corresponding target text.
I’m not quite sure how I get the dummy text to jump down to the reference text. I thinking I’m getting bug-eyed now!
It’s not the “dummy text,” but the reference number: click on [1] or [2], those are the references.
OK, I’ve got the grey number in the [ ]. How do I get it to jump? In other words, how should I set up the numbered reference “list”, should it be a bookmark or something else?
Ex:
- Shamoun, F, Sual N, Abela G. Peripheral…
At some point, this is going to be an A-ha moment. Not quite there yet.
Sorry, but in the sample file I attached to my original answer, did you try to do a click on the number itself? I’ll add a screenshot.
Is it possible to talk me though this. So far, I have a bookmark “Target for reference 1” with a gray box. Not sure how I get that to pick up the chunk of text in my first reference. All of this for a medical article going into a peer-reviewed journal.
I meant not talk but “talk” a kind of step by step.
It seems I’m not understanding what you do not understand here… I provided a quick mechanism for a link from one part of the document to a list of references on another part of the same document, but I’m suspecting now that that’s not what you want. If you want to link to a web site from your document, you need an hyperlink: select the “anchor point” (any portion of text can be used) and press Ctrl Alt k (same as Insert → Hyperlink) to get a dialog where you can set the url associated to that text.
I saw the arrow come up for each, but the corresponding text didn’t jump.
I get the grey box, but it doesn’t “pointing finger” like yours does.
I don’t need to hyperlink the URL for the doctor reference, just the actual text lines really. This has been a difficult one to explain, but I think I’m starting to get it (hopefully). The grey [1] box needs to point to the text part of the target reference. Once it jumps, the URL that’s there (just a citing for an online source) would only just sit there. I just need to go to the text-based part of the reference.
Bug-eyed for sure…or just dense after two days.
I guess at the end of the day, I’m trying to figure out how to get the “pointing finger” and how to get it to jump to its corresponding chunk of text.
It should do that in automatic: cross-references always behave as links. There must be something wrong with your LibO install. Which version do you use on which operative system?
I did see how they jumped. I just had to add spaces between the lines. Worked perfectly.
I have LO 6.1.1 in Win 10.
I just got it to work. Now I have to figure out what exactly I just did!
Got to figure out what I just did…