Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Is there a way to create a link to a particular position inside a Google Doc?

If I have shared a Google Doc with someone so we both can edit it, is there a way I can send that purpose a URL that, when clicked, takes that person to the Google Doc and scrolls down to a particular position? e.g.:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AWJy3jZ323434343TBndDlqM3Y3dg&hl=en&target=Section%203

this example would search for and find the text "Section 3"

Is there a way to do this kind of deep linking into Google Docs?

  • After you've got the headings in the document and formatted as such, do Insert > Table of Contents. It will add a TOC to the document with clickable links. Note that you can remove the TOC and the links are still valid. You can also insert bookmarks rather than a TOC.

    It isn't a search feature though. If you look at the link that gets generated, it isn't something you'd be able to guess or manipulate.

    From rchern
  • create a bookmark (insert -> bookmark). you can then append a

     #name_of_bookmark
    

    to the url.

    From akira

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