Set Quickmark
Leave a bookmark at the cursor position, go somewhere else in your document, and fly back to your bookmark later.
These scripts are part of the Type and Text collection. See the full collection here.
This script is part of the Book and Long Document Composition/Production collection. See the full collection here.
You’re working in a document and want to check something somewhere else in the document, then return to where you came from. You can do this with the scripts described here.
To set a quickmark somewhere, select an insertion point and run the quickmark_set.jsx script. When you want to return to this point later on, run the quickmark_goto.jsx script. That’s all there’s to it.
Ideally, the scripts are assigned to keyboard shortcuts in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor.
Note: The scripts use a text anchor (a.k.a. Hyperlink Destination), not a bookmark. An earlier version of the scripts did use a bookmark, but the trouble with bookmarks is that they appear in the bookmark table of contents when the document is exported to PDF. The anchor is named Quickmark.
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This article was last modified on August 22, 2026
This article was first published on August 3, 2025
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