Hyperlinks, Bookmarks, & PDFs

[James E Middleton]

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.

 

[HT]

If you create the document using the menu option "Adobe PDF, Change
Conversion Settings, Bookmarks" you can convert Word headings to bookmarks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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