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    • August 16, 2020 at 8:53 pm #126548
      Paul Aubin
      Member

      Hello:
      I imported a large Word doc into InDesign (latest version, PC). There have been some issues… The latest is the bookmarks panel. I have hundreds of bookmarks with weird names from Word. When I double-click on it, it seems to go to the location in the text, but it is very hard to see the cursor. I think these are anchors to each image in the file. (This is a technical manual with 850 images). So I am pretty sure I have a bookmark for each image, and possibly each caption beneath each image.
      1. I would like to confirm this. As I said double-clicking them is not very helpful. Is there some way to highlight them?
      2. If I can confirm they are just anchors for each image, I might be able to just delete them.
      3. Otherwise, if I decide to keep them, is there a script or some other easy way to rename them all?
      Here’s an image:
      https://pfacs-my.sharepoint.com/:i:/g/personal/paubin_paulaubin_com/EcThiA1VAG9Pq58_HqnbcUsBV6xWH3K72y5xNCb5tUsGRg?e=V5z87I
      Thanks.

    • August 17, 2020 at 11:14 am #126551
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You can see bookmarks more easily if you select the story and choose Edit > Edit in Story Editor.
      I’m not sure why Word would be putting all those bookmarks in there. You may be able to find a way to remove them in Word before importing.
      If you want to delete the bookmarks, you should be able to do that in the panel easily.
      More on bookmarks here..
      https://indesignsecrets.com/the-source-of-the-mysterious-_goback-bookmark-and-how-to-get-rid-of-it.php

    • August 17, 2020 at 3:01 pm #126555
      Paul Aubin
      Member

      Thanks David:
      I think they are tied to my figure references. But as I noted it is hard for me to tell. So it is safe to delete them. Good to know.
      I wanted to figure out if they were useful before doing that. Maybe rename them.
      Is there a way to select them (and even rename) in the story editor?
      Thanks

    • August 18, 2020 at 8:42 am #126576
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You can rename them in the Bookmarks panel. There may be a way to rename them with a custom script, but I don’t know of any, sorry!

    • August 18, 2020 at 8:51 am #126577
      Paul Aubin
      Member

      Sounds good. Thanks

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