Greetings-

I have 2010 MS Office and want to make a click-able link in the footer. If is also imperative that once it is converted to a pdf file- that the link still work on the pdf also.

Having tried it- the link is greyed out and not click-able in Word or pdf.

Any suggestions?

Much appreciated.

In a Word document, links in headers and footers are not active unless you first activate the header/footer area. This is by design.

In a Word document converted to PDF, only links that are internet addresses work (such as http://msofficeforums.com), but not hyperlinked text or images. This is a bug.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Thanks for the reply. Any work around?

Andy

Hyperlinks situated in the body of a document to a bookmark anywhere in the document do work in PDFs created by File|SaveAs in Word. It is only hyperlinks from the header/footer that don't work.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

True. I could have clarified this, but since the whole thread is about clickable links in the footer, I chose not to. :-)

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

As I wrote, if you can have a link which is a URL (that is, no display text or image), it's going to work in the converted PDF.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional