How to add link target with Confluence page editor when Anchor macro is missing?

Question

I want to create a link target in a Confluence page to link directly to a header in the page. The documentation describes that there is Anchor macro to define such a target.

When editing the page this macro does not exist. I tried 2 ways to get it:

* typing / (slash) followed by anchor
* open the list of macro's with Insert - View more

Without the Anchor macro how can I define a link target in a page?

Sean Manseau · Answer

No solution to offer, but I too am dealing with the missing Anchor macro.

Rob Schlüter · Answer

That does not work.

Can it be caused by the new page editor, I remember choosing it when creating the page? But I did not understand it would change the available macros.

edit: Just saw this comment that the anchor macro is missing from the new editor.

The "Insert more content" is not present, but I see this:

It contains the option ... View more which show the list of macros. But the "anchor" macro is not included there.

Entering { followed by "anchor" puts that text in the document.

I will recreate a page with the "normal" editor to see if that solves the problem.

Jared Brenner · Answer

Hi Rob,

That's pretty weird that the Anchor macro isn't available.  If that header is formatted as a Heading you can always just add a hyperlink formatted as follows:

URL/#PageTitleNoSpaces-HeadingNameNoSpaces

So the anchor URL for a page titled "Team Landing Page" with text "Team Announcements" formatted as a Heading would appear as follows:

URL/#TeamLandingPage-TeamAnnouncements

A user following that link would see their page jump to the top of the Team Announcements Heading.

Good luck!