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If you want to link from another website to a specific place on a page, the link must be in the following form: https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/x/MId8#caBIG-CBIITProductsAtoZ-caint (which represents https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/CommonProjects/caBIG-CBIIT+Products+A+to+Z#caBIG-CBIITProductsAtoZ-caint) The tiny link for the page is https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/x/MId8. This example no longer functions because the page has been renamed and the anchor no longer exists.

Thus the link from another website to a specific place on a page is constructed as follows: the tiny link followed by # PLUS the full text of the anchor as displayed in the browser window, without the plus signs. If you change the name of the page, the link opens the page but does not go to the specific place on the page.

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