Anchor Tags are links readers can use to jump down to information that exists further down the same page. Readers can use them to quickly link to the information that interests them.
To set up anchor tags, you need to do two things. You need to insert the anchor next to the content you want to link to (Anchor Point) and you need to create the links that go to this Anchor Point.
- To insert the Anchor Point in your message, place your cursor at the beginning of the paragraph or sentence you want the link go to. Click on the icon that looks like a boat anchor.
- In the pop-up screen that appears, enter the name for the anchor and click Insert. This will be your Anchor Point. The Anchor Point names must be unique—you cannot have two anchors with the same name.
- To create the link that will go to this Anchor Point, highlight, or select, the words you want to be the link that your readers will click on. After highlighting your text, click on the icon for creating a hyperlink (it looks like a piece of chain). If it is not clickable, try highlighting your text again—the icon is only clickable if text is highlighted.
- After clicking the hyperlink icon, a pop-up screen will appear: enter the name of the Anchor Point in the field for Link URL. You need to enter the name of the anchor point exactly as you created it in step 2 above (it is case sensitive) with a # in front of it. For example, you would enter #tip if in step 2 you named your Anchor Point “tip.” Do not change the option “open link in same window.” Click Insert.
After creating your anchor tags, click Save Changes and Preview. When the Preview screen opens, test your anchor links and make sure they go to the right places in your text.