I'm transitioning from FrameMaker to Word. when my FM docs are exported to .pdf, citation tags are active hyperlinks, i.e., when clicked they take you to the referred-to citation at the end of the document. the citation tags in pdf docs exported from Word are just text. is there a way to make this happen? has anything changed from 2007 to 2013 re this?

That depends on how you're doing the export and what features the software you're using for that provides. As for Word 2007 vs Word 2013, the latter can open PDFs directly, which might allow you to 'export' the content using Word itself.

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my guess is that you assume I have much more knowledge than I do re these products. I'm not a power user, just a dweeb trying to make something happen. when I posted the question some suggested threads appeared saying that in Word hyperlinks cannot be made to what Word treats as moving/active objects, i.e., references to objects that evolve with a document can't be made via hyperlink--a dumb protocol. is this about right?

if so, I need to revisit some ancient docs and try to figure how they (I at the time) managed it.

I feel that, educated and experienced in the use of oars, I am behind in the age of steam.

thanks

I haven't assumed anything in particular about your expertise. Similarly, I don't know what you used for the PDF conversion, so I can't offer any advice on that front (even if I did know, that doesn't necessarily mean I'd be any more knowledgeable than you about what it can do).

I'm also not sure what you mean by "Word hyperlinks cannot be made to what Word treats as moving/active objects". In Word, hyperlinks to other content in a document is usually done by bookmarking the range the hyperlink is to point to and referencing that bookmark in the hyperlink. Move the bookmark and the hyperlink destination moves with it. What doesn't change automatically is the hyperlink display text. That's because the display text doesn't have to be the same as what the bookmark contains, though that is the default for a new hyperlink.

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thanks. sorry, but I was a little irritated my last post...absolutely nothing personal. I adjusted to FrameMaker when I had a seminal paper to produce, a six-month full-time process after long periods of frustration because everything I did was eventually ported to PDF for distribution and Adobe just made those transitions complete and seamless...never a boobytrap.

working with Word now and having all my output ported to PDF it just seems to be a minefield, one mystifying setback after another. in my heart I know that I'm approaching retirement and need to prepare for obsolescence but, shit, I stayed on top of things for 40 years.

Thanks for your inputs. I sincerely appreciate the help. I guess my time is just up. my degree in computer science required semesters of slide rule and typing for punched cards. ha, I begged, borrowed, and would've stolen to get my HP-35, $400 in 1972, a veritable fortune and worth every penny. every time I find myself in Walgreens I take a moment to veer by the battery section where I see 3$ pocket calculators that can run circles around my old HP-35 without getting winded.

I'm signing off...God bless you all.

FWIW, part of the problem MS has had with providing interoperability with Adobe products has been an apparently long-standing refusal by Adobe to give MS the required license. My understanding is that, even when they announced they'd make that licence available for free, Adobe refused to provide it to MS at all. All about protecting market share I guess - and trying to steer people away from MS products. Office 2007 was the first Office product with the ability to save to the PDF format and Office 2013 is the first MS product that has had the ability to read that format. Not that there was ever a technical difficulty; after all, Adobe was quite happy to allow anyone except MS to do this for years before.

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Paul Edstein
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