Google-docs – Inside the Google Document, can I put a link to a chapter of a second document

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I can create an internal link (within the same document) easily and just reference previously defined Headings.

Can I do the same cross-document?

This means: can I create a link to another document's Heading?

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There is advice at Digital Inspiration from Amit Agarwal (May 28, 2013):

It is easy to create links that point to any specific paragraph in a long Google Document. Just scroll to that paragraph and put your cursor in the beginning of that paragraph. Now select the Bookmark option from the Insert menu. Google will add a little ribbon to that paragraph – click the ribbon and then click “Link.”

The full hyperlink to that paragraph can now be copied from your browser’s address bar and it will look something like this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1234/<strong>#heading=h.1icy486iph1x</strong>

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Google-docs – mailto: link with multiple recipients in a Google Docs Document

I'm afraid that this isn't possible. (At least, not right now.)

A quick perusal of the Google Drive support forums shows other people also wanting to have more dynamic mailto: links in their Google Documents. (Surprisingly, this might be easier to do with Google Spreadsheets and the =hyperlink() function.)

Anyway, I did some experimentation.

A mailto: link with one Email address will work.

mailto:bigal@example.com

However, it has to be an email address. Using a name (so that Outlook will search for it in your address book) doesn't work.

I also tried a couple of other tricks to get multiple addresses in the link.

mailto:bigal@example.com?cc=littlejohn@example.com

That doesn't work. Nor did separating email addresses with commas instead of semi-colons, so that's not an issue.

So, it appears that in a Google Document you're limited to the very simplest mailto: link.

Assuming you're "locked in" to the Google eco-system, your options at this point are to either put email addresses into the document as plain text (so people can copy-paste directly to their email client compose window) or create an email alias for each group of people who should receive email messages from a document. (That last is certainly impractical for even small shops.)

Google-docs – Create table of contents in Google Docs from only specific heading types

Unfortunately, there is no such support in Google Docs. However, there are a few options to get around this:

You can keep the Headings you want to be shown in the Table of Contents as Heading 1 and manually format the other headings.

INSERT TABLE OF CONTENTS

(only grab from Heading 2)
• Dog
• Man

DOCUMENT
Cat -> Heading 1
Dog -> Heading 2
Man -> Heading 2
Wom -> Manually format this to Heading 3 (Change the font size, etc.)
You can keep your heading structure and write out the table of contents on your own and create hyperlinks to these headings listed in your table of contents. (Here is a link on how to create hyperlinks: Create a table of contents with hyperlinks in Google Docs)

Hope that helps!

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