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After I click on an internal bookmark in a Google Doc, how do I get back to my previous position? The browser back button doesn't work for this.

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Have you tried the "back" button in your browser? –  Jacob Jan Tuinstra Dec 4 '12 at 8:30
yes, and not work. –  gsc-frank Dec 4 '12 at 12:31
Perhaps you can share the google docs with us? –  Jacob Jan Tuinstra Dec 4 '12 at 12:38
You can create any doc and test it, that just take 1min if you know create bookmarks and links to them. Thanks. –  gsc-frank Dec 5 '12 at 16:09
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AFAIK there is no way to use the back button to easily get tot he previous position in a doc.

If you are trying to do something like jump from one spot to another and back, what you can try is something like a Back to top link.

For example: if you have a table of contents at the top of a doc that jumps to headers below, you can insert a Table of Contents or set up bookmark links as usual.

Next, add a bookmark on the Table of Contents header itself.

Finally, next to any targeted headers in the doc, add the text "(back to top)" and link it to the Table of Contents bookmark. This will let users jump back to the original point.

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Good method, but too tedious for my uses cases. My document have a lot of linked parts, and one bookmark can me reached from multiples links, so, in each bookmark I must put a 'back link' to each part of the document users could be using to reach that bookmark. In resume, your method no apply to my situation. Still I thanks you for let me know that not exist such 'go back' feature in google doc. –  gsc-frank Dec 5 '12 at 16:08
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