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Need to link two embeded items on different pages

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    • #60484
      mckayk777
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      G'day all,

      Indesign CS4 on Mac

      Need to know if there is a way to link a line of text with a page number in it to automatically alter if the linked photo should change pages.

      ie: (and sorry if this is not clear, not even sure how to ask this one)

      I have a 300 page book I have to layout that has photos all the way through it some grey some colour, the colour photos we will be putting all together in the middle of the book, there will be place holders inbeded into the story where the photos where originally within the story and would like these place holders to have a page number that updates automatially to where the photo goes and also the page with the colour photos to have a place holder to say this photo came from such and such page and to have both these to update automatically as the text reflows.

      Is this possible.

      Bassically something like a TOC but not

    • #60488

      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

    • #60497
      mckayk777
      Member

      G'day Anne-Marie,

      Yep thats got it for sure, your the bee's knee's thanks for the help

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