Link problem: bookmark targets hitting before header instead of on

[tomcam]

My document is tightly structured, using a Heading 1 to start each chapter
and for nothing else. I have many links to these chapters. I convert the
document to PDF for use. Some of the links end up taking the user to the end
of the page before the Heading 1 used for the chapter title. How can I fix
this? I had imagined there would be some way to display the automatically
generated bookmark for the chapter title. When I show bookmarks, including
hidden ones, it doesn't seem to show the bookmark so I can't figure what's
going wrong.

Rig:
Word 2007
2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS
Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1
Intel Core i7@ 920 2.67Ghx
12G RAM, 1T hard disk with 900G available

 

[Robert M. Franz [RMF]]

Hello Tom

My document is tightly structured, using a Heading 1 to start each chapter
and for nothing else. I have many links to these chapters. I convert the
document to PDF for use. Some of the links end up taking the user to the end
of the page before the Heading 1 used for the chapter title. How can I fix
this? I had imagined there would be some way to display the automatically
generated bookmark for the chapter title. When I show bookmarks, including
hidden ones, it doesn't seem to show the bookmark so I can't figure what's
going wrong.

Rig:
Word 2007
2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS
Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1
Intel Core i7@ 920 2.67Ghx
12G RAM, 1T hard disk with 900G available

there have probably been almost generations of Word MVPs (and others)
who have asked MSFT for a way to display the automatic bookmarks -- so
far, to no avail.

Have you included "Page break before" into your Heading 1 style's
definition, or have you used hard page breaks?

What about the hyperlinks in Word itself, do they bring you to the
correct page?

It can happen (as with other bookmarks) that their boundaries get
changed inadvertently (if you click RETURN with the cursor before the
first chapter of a H1 paragraph, for instance).

To be on the safe side, I'd probably try deleting the H1 in question
including the preceding paragraph. Update the entire TOC. Then insert
what you have deleted, as text only. And restyle appropriately. Update
the entire TOC again.

HTH
Robert