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

[Rob Schlüter]

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]

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

[Jared Brenner]

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!

[Zak Laughton]

Hi Rob!

I'm not familiar with the slash key or "View more" menus related to macros, but there are other ways to find macros. Let us know if you're able to find the macro with either of these methods:

• Type an opening curly brace { and then type "anchor".
• Click the "Insert more content" dropdown in the editor, click Other macros, then search "anchor" in the "Select macro" dialog box.
  

I hope this helps!
–Zak

[Rob Schlüter]

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.