It works when I try it: I create a Word document. I select a word in the
middle then use Insert Hyperlink to associate a web address with that
word. The word is displayed in hyperlink style and, when clicked, opens the
web page. I convert the document to PDF using Acrobat 7. In the resulting
PDF that word is still a hyperlink, exactly as expected.

As you'll see if you press Alt-F9 in your document, all hyperlinks are
{HYPERLINK ...} fields. The only difference between a literal web address
and a word with an associated web address is the display text itself; as
fields they are the same.

So your problem must lie, I think, somewhere else.




"apoor" wrote in message
...
I apologize -- let me try again.

If I type a URL in the body of a Word document -- http://www.fubar.com --
Word will automatically identify this as a link, and by default, will
underline it, change the text to blue, and make it a hyperlink.

If I run a document with such a link through almost all PDF converters,
they
will correctly identify this text as a hyperlink, and will make the link
available when the resulting PDF is viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

On the other hand, if I right-click on some text in Word -- such as Fubar
Company -- and choose the Create Hyperlink option, I can associate a
URL --
such as http://www.fubar.com -- and the text in the Word document -- Fubar
Company in this case -- will become underlined, blue, and available as a
hyperlink when the document is viewed within Word.

However -- and here's the whole problem -- when I run this second document
through almost all the PDF converters that I have tried, the converted
text
for Fubar Company will show up underlined and blue, but it will NOT be a
hyperlink in the PDF document when viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader. (There
was
just one converter that did preserve the embedded hyperlink, but it failed
to
render rest of the complex formatting of the document.)

Even Adobe's own online conversion service failed to preserve the embedded
hyperlink in the final PDF document.

I'm willing to pay for a converter that will do the job, but so far I have
not found a single one that appears to be able to do this. Does anyone
know
of a product that will do this?

If this still is not clear, please let me know.

Alfred

"Jezebel" wrote:

Might help if you explained the problem first.



"apoor" wrote in message
...
I have tried a half-dozen converters, and can't solve this problem. All
will
pick up a URL in the text of a document and make it a hyperlink in the
PDF,
but I want to embed the URL as a hyperlink in the text of the Word
document.
I only found one that would do this, but it would not render the
complex
page
formatting properly. Most products preserve the text formatting --
underlined
and blue -- but there's no hyperlink attached to the text in the PDF. I
have
tried Neevio, Nuance (ScanSoft), PDF-Xchange, and others. Even Adobe's
online
conversion failed at this.

Does anyone know of a product that will do this?