Reply To: Need to link two embeded items on different pages

Hi there,

I think you can do what you ask with cross-references, as long as there is some text by each image (like a figure number or caption) that is not a cross-reference back to the text.

So in the line of body text elsewhere, you'd type in something like “Wonder Woman's picture is on page ” but right after the word “page,” you choose File > Hyperlinks & Cross-References > Insert Cross-Reference. From the X-Ref dialog box you'd locate the caption text or figure number of the picture you want to reference (see the on-line help if this dialog box is baffling), and select the “Page Number” option from the X-Ref Format menu. InDesign inserts the page number of the page where the targetted caption text or figure number appears.

To go in the opposite direction, you do the same. Remember that x-refs link to paragraph locations, not specific lines of text or words. So if you insert a x-ref in a picture caption like “For Wonder Woman's bio, see page ” and then do the same as above — target the paragraph with WW's bio and select the Page Number format — in the caption, ID will insert the page number where the paragraph containing her bio begins. (Even if the paragraph spans 3 pages and her name isn't mentioned till end.)

AM