APub: Navigate next/prev section

[GeirSol]

How do I navigate fast and easy to next/previous section?

(The Book function was meant to simplify organizing and navigating chapters. But it seems not ready for serious work, so I had to revert to one document and sections)

[MikeTO]

There is no way to do this. There is a frequent request that the Pages panel be enhanced to offer collapsible sections, but I think you raise a good point. The Document menu could really benefit from having Next Section and Previous Section commands. Then we could assign keyboard shortcuts to them.

My own book has just two sections to control the page number of front matter versus the rest of the book. Each chapter of my book has a tab in a different vertical position than the previous chapter so the section manager can't handle that. Maybe someday the section manager will be beefed up to allow the automatic application of a master page to the pages in that section.

But if Publisher had Next/Previous Section menu commands, I'd create sections just so I could use keyboard shortcuts to quickly move between sections.

So a big +1 from me for the idea of adding Next/Previous Section commands.

[GeirSol]

I keep coming back to this. Right now I need to find my table of contents on page 4, then see where my chapter is, then type in the right number. Or alternatively right click a page in the page-panel, open chapter, scroll down to right chapter, find the page-number, and enter that in the page-navigation.
When needing to go 1-30 flicking through the sections first-pages, this is just very very cumbersome in Publisher at the moment.

[MikeTO]

33 minutes ago, GeirSol said:

I keep coming back to this. Right now I need to find my table of contents on page 4, then see where my chapter is, then type in the right number. Or alternatively right click a page in the page-panel, open chapter, scroll down to right chapter, find the page-number, and enter that in the page-navigation.
When needing to go 1-30 flicking through the sections first-pages, this is just very very cumbersome in Publisher at the moment.

Here's a workaround you could use for now.

On the first page of each section, draw a text frame and type in something short that you don't use elsewhere in the document. For example, you might type s1 for section 1, s2 for section 2, etc.

If the last frame in section 1 is linked to the first frame in section 2, pin this frame into the text so it moves with the text.

Hide the frame so it won't be visible or printable.

When you want to jump to section 7 quickly, just press Cmd+F (ctrl+F on Windows), type s7, and press Return.

[GeirSol]

3 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Here's a workaround you could use for now.

On the first page of each section, draw a text frame and type in something short that you don't use elsewhere in the document. For example, you might type s1 for section 1, s2 for section 2, etc.

If the last frame in section 1 is linked to the first frame in section 2, pin this frame into the text so it moves with the text.

Hide the frame so it won't be visible or printable.

When you want to jump to section 7 quickly, just press Cmd+F (ctrl+F on Windows), type s7, and press Return.

Thanks! Actually I have other anchor-points set up for my TOC, so I can use your method navigating those

[thomaso]

Another workaround for fast navigation to certain spots in a document can be the feature of "View Points".

Advantage:
  • They are easy to create and use with just one click.
  • They get auto-numbered.
  • They move with their page when their page/spread gets moved and don't stick to a certain page number .
Disadvantage:
  • They are not related to Sections.
  • There auto-numbering does not refer the page order within a document but the view point creation order.