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Thanks, Lene, it turns out that Yes, both the things you mentioned were
already checked. While I was there I noticed that there is an additional box
to check: 'Convert Word Styles to Bookmarks'. When I check that, then my
headings do convert, but... a thousand other things get put into the bookmark
list as well! So that won't solve it.

One might conclude, 'Oh, so my 'headings' are not really headings, they are
styles.' Okay, but if so, how do I convert them to headings? Furthermore, in
the 'Type' column in the Bookmarks tab you mentioned, they are listed as
'headings', and the Bookmark box is check for each and every one of them.
Arggh!
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Peyton Todd


"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

A couple of things you could check in Word (if you have not already done this):

Do you have an Adobe PDF menu en the Menu Bar in Word? In that case, select
Adobe PDF menu Change Conversion Settings and check the following:

1. On the Settings tab, make sure that "Add bookmarks to Adobe PDF" is
checked.

2. On the Bookmarks tab, make sure that the check box "Convert Word Headings
to Bookmarks" is checked and that the headings you want to bookmark are
checked in the list (according to my experience, Acrobat sometimes lose the
checkmarks in the list).

Depending on your version of Adobe Acrobat, the names of the commands may
differ from the above.

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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Peyton Todd" wrote:

Hello. This may be a difficult problem since it involves the interface
between Word and another product, but here goes...

I frequently convert Word documents to Adobe Acrobat PDFs, and I always
count on the fact that Word's headings, which are viewable in the Document
Map, are converted automatically to Acrobat's 'bookmarks', a tree-style
outline on the lefthand side of the PDF, accessible by pressing a button just
like the Document Map in Word. However, this time, even though the headings
show up in the Document Map in Word just as they should, they don't appear in
the resulting PDF.

I am using a Word template provided by the academic journal to which I plan
to submit this PDF, so it must be something special about their headings. But
they seem normal as far as I can see. As I said, they all appear just as they
should in the Word Document Map. And they can be readily edited in
Format...Styles and Formatting.

Any ideas on what could be wrong here?

Thanks in advance for any help you might provide!
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Peyton Todd