Writer - Cross-Reference with custom text

[AndonRT]

I’m wanting to insert a cross-reference to a specific heading. No big deal, use cross-references. This works great.

Except when I want the text to be different than what’s being referenced.

As an example - The sentence is “There are many pirates on the sea” and the header is Pirates. If I insert a cross-reference, the sentence becomes “There are many Pirates on the sea” which… looks wrong, at the very least. And if I have a sentence that was along the lines of “He was a pirate” it would become “He was a Pirates”.

I like the links - what I’m working on is going to be in a PDF which all those links are super useful. But the text needs to flow properly.

I’ve come across a semi-solution in using hyperlinks, but to be honest the flow of inserting cross-references is much nicer and easier to navigate.

Is it possible to have cross-references with custom text like this?

[ajlittoz]

@AndonRT

Is it possible to have cross-references with custom text like this?

No. A cross reference is made for quoting exactly what is referenced (or inserting page/chapter number).

If your goal is to create links across your document, well, you found by yourself that the feature is hyperlink.

Don’t mistake both features for each other. Hyperlinks are versatile and the price to pay for that is the rather convoluted insertion dialog.