Proper syntax for anchor links in imported Word docs

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Hey folks, I have been fussing with this for a couple of days now and nothing seems to work. I know this has come up before, but I don't yet have a solution. 

I have a Word doc (software manual of 250+ pages) that I imported to our Confluence Server (v6.14.1) Confluence imported each chapter of the doc into a separate page (as requested).

As others report, links to individual chapters/pages and to anchors within each page behave as they should. 

There are a ton of cross-references between chapters/pages, so I've made anchors for each cross-reference. I'll note that Confluence created numerous anchors for each heading -- mostly referencing the Table of Contents (example: _Toc384453954), but also what seems to be a cross-reference (_Ref78100551). These examples are next to the heading "Working with Self-Extracting (PKSFX) Archives" in a page/chapter called "3 _Adding Files to an Archive."

 If I create a link on another page to the Self-Extracting Archive anchor with this wording on the Advanced field and save, Confluence creates a new page when you click the link: 

3 _Adding Files to an Archive#SFX (the anchor I created; and yes, it's all caps in the anchor)

Same thing happens if I use _Ref78100551 as an anchor.

If I use the full URL with #SFX in the Advanced field, Confluence points to the top of the page, but doesn't look for the Anchor.

https://confluence.pkware.com/display/SPE/3++_Adding+Files+to+an+Archive#SFX

Not to get ahead of myself, but once all this gets sorted out, the whole mess will be published on a separate (public) Confluence instance. I fervently hope I won't have to redo all the anchor links before publishing over there! 

Thanks for reading through all this detail. I hope there's enough here to find an answer.

 

Bill Bailey

Well anchors/links within a page have a different format than they do page to page. So for example, the storage format for a link to an anchor on the same page takes the form of

<ac:link ac:anchor="Figure2">
<ac:plain-text-link-body><![CDATA[figure]]></ac:plain-text-link-body>
</ac:link>

But a link to the same anchor from another page will appear in the form of

 <ac:link>
<ri:page ri:content-title="Table and Figure Macros"/>
<ac:plain-text-link-body><![CDATA[figure]]></ac:plain-text-link-body>
</ac:link>

So for cross-page links, you need the page reference. I suspect that all your links appear like the same page links.

Take a look at the storage view to see how you links appear, let me know, and I should be able to propose a course of action.