When I link within the page, it opens another instance of the document

[Deleted user]

Hi, 

I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I'm using the Enterprise cloud version of Confluence. I'm linking to an anchor within my document.
I've created a "manual TOC" because I only want links to specific parts of my document. (all in one or two sections, not the whole document). 

I created the Anchor just above the heading that I want to link to because I found otherwise, the heading is missing from the jump. In my link, I use the hash tag# in front of the anchor name. 

E.g.   Heading name "(A) Topic One"  ;   Anchor name "A_Topic_One"  ; the link "#A_Topic_One"

I also have a "back_to_TOC" under the link that was jumped to that takes the reader back to my manual TOC. (That seems to behave like I would expect, not opening an additional copy.)

When I click on the link there is a little latency, then it opens the page and jumps to the link. The problem is that it opens a new instance of the page. So after I've linked several times my tabs look like: 'Other Document', 'Linking Doc', 'Linking Doc', 'Linking Doc'.

Every time I link to somewhere in the page it opens another Linking Doc. I don't see any parameters that say to open in another tab or another document. I don't seem to have an option to control this.

Does anyone know how to make it jump to an anchor on the page without opening another document?

Thanks in advance,

Kirk

[David at David Simpson Apps]

Hi Kirk

I've made you a video to show exactly how to do this in Confluence Cloud:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbfbpCrYVzk 

The important bit is that the anchor name will be something like test (without the hashtag) but the link URL will be #test (with the hashtag).

– Cheers, David

[Catherine Whitley]

@David at David Simpson Apps I'm not sure what's wrong, but when I go to put in the link, it's not recognizing the anchor that I put in and wants me to insert a link and select a text to display, it doesn't look like yours and so I'm not sure how to get the word I need to link to the anchor. Can you please assist?

[Deleted user]

Thank you David. That helps a lot. 

Best,

Kirk