Let’s say you have a document full of Bookmarks:

Unfortunatey – you can’t select them as a destinations for Hyperlinks:

But there is a very simple solution:

Convert Bookmark to Text Anchor rule:

Let’s load Bookmarks: you need to switch to HLinks list, then check Bookmarks, then click Load.

Now you have access to ALL Bookmarks present in the Document:

Doubleclick on any cell in the TYPE column, marked as HyperlinkTextDestination – will instantly switch you there.

The next step is to “remove” Bookmark and Document from the list of visible TYPEs of objects – uncheck – and click SELECT VISIBLE in the first column:

Now we are ready to create our Task and run it in the BatchMode – execute on all Visbile & Selected objects on the list:

After a few seconds – depends on the number of the Bookmarks in the document – there are no more Bookmarks – but we have a bunch of Text Anchors:

Those Text Anchors are not visible / accessible directly in InDesign – but are fully accessible in the ID-Tasker:

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