New user of MS Word here, sorry for the newbie question.



My document makes frequent use of header cross-references. I would like these to behave as links when exported to PDF format, so that clicking the reference will scroll the pdf to the page containing that header. However, currently when I export a pdf the cross-references do not behave as links.


I have tried the advice on this page of selecting the export option of "Minimize size", and deselecting the "PDF/A compliant" option. Which didn't help.
I've looked through the options on "File -> Print -> Printer -> Microsoft Print to PDF" as well, but didn't find anything that looked like it would help.
I do have the free version of Acrobat Reader installed. However there aren't any Acrobat plug-ins listed in "options -> add-ins -> COM add-ins".

Would this feature require installing the commercial version of Acrobat? I'd rather not have to pay a monthly subscription just to have links.



Thank you for any help.