Search & Navigate - Google Workspace Marketplace

Use this add-on to quickly find and navigate to any part of your document. Search in text, headings, bookmarks, images, and tables. Builds ToC and outline.

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Instantly find and jump to any part of your Google Doc™ with a simple add-on sidebar.

Get a clear, clickable outline of your entire document for effortless navigation. Easily switch between tabs of headings, bookmarks, images, tables, and search results. One click on any item takes you directly to it 🧭.

📑 Navigate by Headings. See all your document headings in a table of contents. Сollapse or expand the document outline. Click on any heading to jump directly to that section. Perfect for structuring long documents.

🔖 Manage Bookmarks. Create a guide through the text with the help of bookmarks. Our sidebar lets you create, delete, name them, or get the links in just one click.

🖼️ Find Images & Tables. Get a list of every image and table with their titles in your document, making them easy to find and review.

🔍 Use Powerful Search. Enter a word or phrase to instantly find every mention across your entire document in text, bookmarks, images, tables, and headings at once. Click any result to navigate straight to it.

This add-on is a great assistant that provides both: an overview and a very detailed look at every section of your document.

If you have any questions about the add-on, please post them here:
https://www.ablebits.com/docs/google-docs-search-navigate/
We'll be happy to assist!

Search & Navigate is a proud member of the Ablebits product family. We build add-ons that help you make the most of Google Workspace. Visit our official website to learn more:
https://www.ablebits.com/google-docs-add-ons/index.php

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Hansly Saw

January 25, 2025

If you don't want to deal with the new "Document Tabs" but still want to have a navigation menu, this add-on offers the best alternative for it. It also "ports" the other navigation features that Microsoft Word already has that Google Docs somehow lacks.

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MaiyureruB

November 15, 2024

Helpful for big docs

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Matt Harms (enigmafyv)

February 7, 2023

While I've not had a chance to review it at length, this add-on is exactly what I was looking for when I went looking. I needed a way to jump around in my document quickly, based on what section I wanted to write in and this allows me to do just that. Suggestion: When selecting each heading, the selected section should float to the top of the display. Currently as you click the next section, the cursor will jump to the section, but its usually at the bottom of the window, forcing me to scroll a bit more to get the content in view, making this a multistep process. Not a huge issue, but I'm all for efficiencies.

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ShojoDraws

October 22, 2020

Absolutely amazing. As someone who writes comics and needs to script them out, this tool allows me to create an insanely easy table of contents that allows me to automatically skip to any chapter of my story. Incredibly helpful tip that I absolutely love. I can't believe I never had this before. I do not regret this installment, its absolutely amazing! Ten out of ten would recommend.

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Electrical Contractor in Toronto

June 30, 2022

I use Search & Navigate for working with and managing bookmarks in long text docs. I've suggested making a tool that will find all links opening or pointing to a particular bookmark and giving a number of these links. Please make it possible to find links opening or pointing to nothing, "bookmark no longer exists", as well as all bad or broken links. Making it possible to find bookmarks with NO links pointing to them would be great! Thank you.

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ziplock9000

June 29, 2023

This was working well for a while and then just stopped 2 weeks ago and I've no idea why

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A User of Search & Navigate

May 3, 2015

Really great add-on. I can navigate through document headings easily and they're all displayed in the correct order and they're collapsible in the sidebar. Alternatively, I can jump to bookmarks, images or tables just as easily. I've got a document which is over 50 pages long and contains a lot of images. It takes a couple of seconds to complete the navigation process but that's not a problem at all. I'm really pleased with the way this add-on works.

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A User of Search & Navigate

December 16, 2016

Google support recommended this program to remove all auto-generated bookmarks at once on an imported file. This program doesn't do that. I don't understand why it would be so hard to select-all and delete or something. But the bad rating is because bookmarks I deleted then kept showing back up. I'm sure it's a fine plugin for other purposes, but for mine it just drove me crazy in an already frustrated state.

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A User of Search & Navigate

January 17, 2019

Based a whole section of our office work on this simple document navigation app, and it has simply stopped working altogether for the past week.

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Sullivan Minto (Jinxers)

March 20, 2022

yay its good!

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