# I desperately need internal anchors that would serve as cross-references in Documents

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [June 15, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953 "2022-06-15T10:00:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![pattricia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/pattricia/32/5105_2.png) [@pattricia](https://community.fibery.io/u/pattricia)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953/1 "2022-06-15T10:00:59Z")

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Hi there 🙂  
I’m a UX researcher and I use Fibery as a research database. I intend to have there all the research data and reports. I use Documents to write reports. It would be really helpful to get internal references there, because when I include Recommendations or Next steps at the bottom of the document I’d like to place there also links to previous sections so that the audience knows where the content that I’m referring to is in the document.  
take care  
pat

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953/2 "2022-06-15T13:05:33Z")

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Do you mean something like bookmarks in Word where you can reference a specific doc section?

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**Author:** ![pattricia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/pattricia/32/5105_2.png) [@pattricia](https://community.fibery.io/u/pattricia)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953/3 "2022-06-15T17:33:26Z")

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Yes, that correct, @Chr1sG.

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**Author:** ![Chr1sG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/chr1sg/32/3941_2.png) [@Chr1sG](https://community.fibery.io/u/Chr1sG)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953/4 "2022-06-15T17:47:42Z")

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I think something like this will be delivered in due course, just don’t know the ETA, sorry.

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**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953/5 "2022-06-15T20:54:26Z")

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Currently the Table of Contents feature request seems to sort of encompass the “anchors” (in-document anchors) request:

> [@\[DONE\] Table of Contents block or other function](https://community.fibery.io/t/table-of-contents-block-or-other-function/2235):
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> I was surprised to not find an existing feature request for this one, but I did search a bit and only found brief mentions in otherwise unrelated discussions. So the request is simple: some kind of Table of Contents feature, for docs, certainly, but perhaps even just overall for Rich Text. Maybe even as a kind of Block in the upcoming [[IN DEV] Migrate Entity View to Blocks](https://community.fibery.io/t/in-dev-migrate-entity-view-to-blocks/2005) paradigm. Personally, though, I’d love to see it as something that can optionally “float” or exist outside/alongside the ma…

I do think they should work together, but I also think that anchors should work _without_ a ToC in a given doc, so it’s appropriate that they’re a separate request.

@pattricia would you agree that a title for this topic that includes “anchors” would help clarify the intent? So me “internal hyperlinks” and “cross-references” don’t really connect with the concept as I am familiar with it. “Anchor” is a term commonly used in HTML, so it may be more familiar to me than those who are more used to e.g. a document/Word context, I’m not sure.

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**Author:** ![pattricia](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/pattricia/32/5105_2.png) [@pattricia](https://community.fibery.io/u/pattricia)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/i-desperately-need-internal-anchors-that-would-serve-as-cross-references-in-documents/2953/6 "2022-06-15T22:08:05Z")

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Yes, you’re right, @Oshyan. I’ve update the topic title.  
Table of contents is one thing, but being able to reference a section in the document from any place of this document is another thing. Anchors would prevent me from repeating some content in several places and at the same time they would give the readers an easy way to jump from one section to another.
