to link text within document

[ketanco]

i have a 100 page document that i am still writing. i made an index in the beginning and as it gets longer and longer it is harder to find the text i want



is it possible to link the index text in the beginning to each same heading that occurs later in the text? if so how?

[macropod]

Ordinarily, one would use Headings and a Table of Contents at the font of a document and an Index at the rear. By default, a Table of Contents hyperlinks to the corresponding Heading. If you add the hyperlinks Forward/Back buttons to the QAT, you can use them to quickly move back & forth between the TOC and the headings. If you want to cross-reference a Heading, you can do that via Insert|Cross Reference. Indexes in Word don't support hyperlinking.

[Charles Kenyon]

How to create a table of contents in Microsoft Word by Shauna Kelly
Why use Microsoft Word’s built-in heading styles? by Shauna Kelly

Paul is right. The simple solution is to use the TOC feature. It has built-in hyperlinks and if you use the build-in heading styles, you do not need to specially mark anything.