How to Manage Bookmarks in Microsoft Word

When working with a brief document, you can quickly scan its contents to find the text or item you want. However, it may be Scan a large document Finding an item can be difficult. Now imagine the same situation when working with a Microsoft Word document. A bookmark saves you the stress of browsing pages of text by taking you directly to the specific item you need in a document. Bookmarks in Microsoft Word are very similar to bookmarks on printed text. You can use them to highlight text, specific locations in a document, and images that you need to revisit. Here's how to manage bookmarks in Microsoft Word.

How to insert a bookmark in Microsoft Word

Here's what you need to do to add a bookmark to your Word documents:

Step 1: turn on Word document who you want to add Bookmarks mechanism.

Step 2: Locate Location Or Text Or Image that you want to include in the bookmark.

Step 3: On the ribbon, click the tab Insert.

Step 4: Under the Links group, click Bookmark To start a dialog box.

Step 6: Click addition To close the window.

The simple process above creates a bookmark in your document. You can repeat the process multiple times to add different bookmarks to your document. Other bookmark features to keep in mind when creating one include:

• A bookmark name must always start with a letter.
• Bookmark names can contain underscores and numbers.
• Your bookmark name cannot contain dashes, slashes, spaces, or other special characters.

How to insert links into a bookmark in Microsoft Word

Bookmarks in Microsoft Word also work with hyperlinks. You can click them to jump to a specific part of the document.

Step 1: turn on Microsoft Word document Bookmark an existing one or do aCreate one Using the steps above.

Step 2: Locate Bookmark to which you want to add the link.

Note: Bookmarks in a Word document are represented by gray square brackets around the bookmarked item.

Step 3: Right click Element which is bookmarked and clicked Above the linkAnother way to do this is to press the keys. CTRL + K At the same time on the keyboard.

Step 4: in the dialog box Insert a hyperlink Go to the link to the part and select situation In this document.

Step 5: Locate Bookmark name that you want to link inside the box labeled. Select place In this document.

Step 6: Click "OK".

Step 7: You can add a screen tip to the bookmark that appears when you hover your mouse over the link. Do this by clicking Screen Tip and then entering the screen tip text.

Step 8: Click "OK".

You can click the link to take you directly to your bookmark.

How to delete a bookmark in Microsoft Word

If you decide that a bookmark is no longer necessary in your Microsoft Word document, here's how to delete it:

Step 1: turn on Word document using Bookmark.

Step 2: On the ribbon, click the tab Insert.

Step 3: Under the Links group, click Bookmark to start dialog box.

Step 4: Select the bookmark you want to delete, and then click delete.

Note: Microsoft Word will not display a confirmation message warning you about deleting. Once you press the delete button, the bookmark is automatically deleted.

Repeat the process if you want to delete more than one bookmark. It's important to note that the link to a bookmark remains even after you delete the bookmark. If you want to delete the link, here's what to do:

Step 1: Place the cursor on Link text Then right click.

Step 2: Scroll through Menu Options and select Remove hyperlink.

You can then automatically remove the bookmark link. Note that you must do this for each bookmark you delete from your document.

Inserting footnotes and endnotes in Microsoft Word

Just as bookmarks make it easy for you to jump to a location in a Microsoft Word document, Footnotes and Endnotes Makes it easy to provide context for a particular element in a document.