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Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, & PDFs
I have a 20 page document that I want to format as follows:
Rather than put all the information 'in-line' and have readers pour through the entire thing, I want to streamline it. The original introduction was four pages long and I've reduced it to an outline with the covering the key points, moving three pages of details to the back of the document. I've done the same thing for each section, reducing each from two pages to one. Now I have seven pages in out line form with thirteen pages of detailed information. I want the reader to be able to jump to the detailed information when necessary. If this were a Web page, I could do this easily with hyperlinks, 'click here for more information'. I've gone through the Help files, and it seems that I can achieve the same thing with bookmarks linking pages in a document, although I haven't tried that yet. So, I have two questions: Is this the solution that I am looking for, do bookmarks behave the same as hyperlinks when linking in a document? And, I am planning to distribute the final as a PDF, will Acrobat 6 Pro retain the bookmarks? Thanks! PS. If I've posted in this forum erroneously, please direct me to the proper forum. |
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If you create the document using the menu option "Adobe PDF, Change
Conversion Settings, Bookmarks" you can convert Word headings to bookmarks. "James E Middleton" wrote in message ... I have a 20 page document that I want to format as follows: Rather than put all the information 'in-line' and have readers pour through the entire thing, I want to streamline it. The original introduction was four pages long and I've reduced it to an outline with the covering the key points, moving three pages of details to the back of the document. I've done the same thing for each section, reducing each from two pages to one. Now I have seven pages in out line form with thirteen pages of detailed information. I want the reader to be able to jump to the detailed information when necessary. If this were a Web page, I could do this easily with hyperlinks, 'click here for more information'. I've gone through the Help files, and it seems that I can achieve the same thing with bookmarks linking pages in a document, although I haven't tried that yet. So, I have two questions: Is this the solution that I am looking for, do bookmarks behave the same as hyperlinks when linking in a document? And, I am planning to distribute the final as a PDF, will Acrobat 6 Pro retain the bookmarks? Thanks! PS. If I've posted in this forum erroneously, please direct me to the proper forum. |
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You can insert hyperlinks in a Word document, and cross-references can also
be formatted as hyperlinks, but you have to have something to hyperlink to. In most cases this will be a bookmark, so you have to insert the appropriate bookmarks first. As others have noted, these should convert properly when you print to PDF. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "James E Middleton" wrote in message ... I have a 20 page document that I want to format as follows: Rather than put all the information 'in-line' and have readers pour through the entire thing, I want to streamline it. The original introduction was four pages long and I've reduced it to an outline with the covering the key points, moving three pages of details to the back of the document. I've done the same thing for each section, reducing each from two pages to one. Now I have seven pages in out line form with thirteen pages of detailed information. I want the reader to be able to jump to the detailed information when necessary. If this were a Web page, I could do this easily with hyperlinks, 'click here for more information'. I've gone through the Help files, and it seems that I can achieve the same thing with bookmarks linking pages in a document, although I haven't tried that yet. So, I have two questions: Is this the solution that I am looking for, do bookmarks behave the same as hyperlinks when linking in a document? And, I am planning to distribute the final as a PDF, will Acrobat 6 Pro retain the bookmarks? Thanks! PS. If I've posted in this forum erroneously, please direct me to the proper forum. |
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