How To Link Within A Document In Google Docs

Usually, we link the documents from one document to another outside Google docs which means when we click on the link in a document it will be redirected to another different document. But linking within a document is also possible. Also creating bookmarks, linking to the bookmarks, linking the text, numbers, etc can be done. One can easily navigate to any part of the existing Google doc using bookmarks and headings. In this article let us see how to link within a document in Google docs.

1. Link Text To A Heading In Google Docs

 

Step 1: Open a Google doc and from the document select the required text

 

Select Text

 

Step 2: Right-click on the selected text

Step 3: From the list click on the insert link



 

Insert Link

 

Step 4: Click on the headings and bookmarks options to expand it

 

Headings Bookmarks

 

Step 5: Select the heading that you want to link

 

Heading

 

Step 6: As soon as you choose the heading, the link will be applied to the text

Step 7: You can see the text underlined in blue color

Step 8: To use the link, click on the text and you can see the linked heading coming up, then click on the heading.

 

Link

 

2. Create A Bookmark In Google Docs

 

Step 1: From the document select the required content. It can be text, numbers etc

 

Bookmark Text

 

Step 2: Click on the insert option at the top of the document

 

Insert

 

Step 3: From the list scroll down and click on bookmark

 

Bookmark

 

Step 4: Now you can see a bookmark icon that appears at the left side of your selected content

 

Bookmark Icon

 

Step 5: If you click on the bookmark icon you can see the copy icon and remove icon

 

Options

 

Step 6: If the bookmark needs to be removed then click on the bookmark icon and click on remove.

 

3. Link To The Created Bookmark

 

Step 1: Select the necessary text

 

Select Bookmark

 

Step 2: Right click on the selected text

Step 3: From the list click on insert link

 

Insert Link Bookmark

 

Step 4: Click on the headings and bookmarks options to expand it

 

Heading Bookmark

 

Step 5: Select the bookmark that you want to link

 

Select Bookmarks

 



Step 6: As soon as you choose the bookmark, the link will be applied to the selected text

Step 7: You can see the text underlined in blue color

Step 8: To use the link, click on the text and you can see the linked bookmark coming up, then click on the bookmark.

 

Bookmark Selected

 

4. Share The Links And Bookmarks

 

Step 1: You can even share the created link that points to the bookmark with others. To do that click on the bookmark icon that has been created

Step 2: When you click on the bookmark icon there you get two options copy link icon and remove

Step 3: To share the link click on the copy link icon

 

Copy Link

 

Step 4: You can share the copied link to people who has permission to access your document.

All the created links will work even if you download the document as a PDF file or Word. Even if you are online or not the links are useful.

That’s it! I hope this article is helpful. Thank you!!