If I add a link to text in a table, many bookmarks are greyed out

I’ve created a document in which I have used styles extensively and carefully.

I have defined a paragraph style which has been added to the Table of Contents and appears correctly.

In most of the document, I can add a link, choose Bookmark - and the bookmark selector shows all the paragraphs which appear in the ToC, including those in the style I created. I can choose any of them and the link works fine.

The document also has a table.

I can copy text which has had the link applied from ordinary text into a cell of the table and it still works fine.

But, if I try to add a link to text that is already within a cell in the table, all these bookmarks are greyed out. The ones I can see in the list are those which have become bookmarks because the item has a header style (e.g. Heading 2) and those bookmarks I have explicitly inserted.

It is tedious (and error-prone) manually defining every instance as a bookmark.

I can work round by doing as I said above, defining the links and copying/pasting them into the table. Trouble is, such workarounds can be fragile and might not work at the next update/release. Hence I usually try to avoid them.

Basically, there seems to be something different about styles which are ‘ordinary’ paragraph styles and those which are derived for heading styles.

And I see no way of changing a style to being a heading style and being an ordinary paragraph style.

I'm using Pages version 14.2 (7041.0.109) under macOS Sequoia Version 15.1.1 (24B2091).