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I can't reproduce this in miniature outside of my document, so I'm asking more debugging help on how I can fix it within the document I have.

The problem is, I have a section with something like:

First is hyperref[P1]{Item I}, go there.  hyperref[P2]{Next} is item 2, and finally is hyperref[P3]{Item III}.

newpage



%% later...

section*{Item I}

label{P1}

stuff

section*{Item II}

label{P2}

stuff

section*{Item III}

label{P3}

stuff

Suppose

• Item I, P1 is on page 1.


• Item II, P2 is on page 6.


• Item III, P3 is on page 20.

No matter what I change, hyperref[P3]{Item III} points to page 5, instead of 20.

I have tried the following debugs:

1. 
   Did I actually mislabel P3 as P2? No, it's P3.


2. 
   Did I actually fail to update the original hyperref, so it still says P2? No, it says P3.


3. 
   Am I sure? How about I call it something totally different, like LOCATION. hyperref[LOCATION]{Item III} section*{Item III}label{LOCATION} Still points to page 5, not page 20!


4. 
   Is there an error I'm missing, such as: LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.? Nope, there are no missing references.


5. 
   How about completely remove label{P2} and see if P3 is still pointing there? Removed, yes, it still points to page 5, which now has zero labels intentionally pointing to it.


6. 
   What about debugging the pages themselves? pageref{P1} pageref{P2} pageref{P3} prints 2 7 21 Close enough, but this tells me in fact pageref{P2} is also incorrect. It's not pointing at P2, but at the end of P1, just as P3 is pointing at the end of P1.

Beyond this, I have no idea how to make any refs defined after the first one work, and by that I mean point elsewhere than at page 5. What could be going on?

You need to use

phantomsection

section*{<title>}

label{<label>}

since there is no hyper target set with section* like there is with section. If you're only using section* within your document, you could automate this process using

letoldsectionsection % Copy section into oldsection

renewcommand{section}{%

  phantomsection % Set hyper target

  oldsection*

}

in your preamble

Another approachs with hyperref and nameref that do not need phantomsections:

documentclass{article}

usepackage[colorlinks,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}

usepackage{lipsum}

usepackage{nameref}

begin{document}



First is Nameref{P1}, go there. par 

hyperlink{X}{Here} is nameref{P2} (Nameref{P2}).par

But there are a  Nameref{P3}.par 

And there are not three without hyperlink{Y}{four} in page pageref{P4}



newpage



section*{Item I}

label{P1}

lipsum[1-20]

section*{Item II}

label{P2}hypertarget{X}

lipsum[21-40]

section*{Item III}

label{P3}

lipsum[41-50]

section*{Item IV}

label{P4}

hypertarget{Y} 

lipsum[1]



end{document}