Word 2007 - Windows XP
I've created hyperlinks from one DOC file to bookmarks in another. When converting to PDF, I've combined the DOC files to create a single PDF document. In the PDF document, the hyperlinks open the DOC version of the file rather than linking to a page in the PDF document. Is there a way to have the hyperlink convert so that it's not opening a DOC file but rather pointing to the correct bookmark in the PDF doc?

Hi melinda,

You could edit the hyperlinks in the documents before doing the conversion, so that they point to the yet-to-be-made PDFs.

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Paul Edstein
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This is really strange, but I was trying to find a forum to post this exact same issue. Paul (macropod), I think you might be misinterpreting Melinda's problem.

Let's say you have 5 .docx files, A-E. Some links in A.docx point to (probably relatively) to B.docx. So you would have a sentence in A.docx that says something like "For more information on this topic, see B.docx") and a link associated with B.docx that opens up that document (maybe the link is file:\\c:\docs\B.docx).

But I believe what Melinda wants to do, and certainly what I want to do, is combine the 5 .docx files into 1 PDF file, with each .docx file being appended to the one before it. We want links preserved, but changed to reflect the new 1 whole PDF document instead of 5 separate ones. So instead of the link being file:\\c:\docs\B.docx, it should be now be something local since B.docx is now integrated in one file with A.docx. So we need a bookmark or something else in order to get to the first page of B.docx.

Does that make sense?

Hi Joel,

With what I suggested, it really shouldn't matter whether the end result is one PDF or a dozen - if you change the hyperlinks to point to the yet-to-be-made PDF(s), that's where the hyperlinks will point to.

I see no evidence that Melinda wants to merge/combine the files. All that has been mentioned is hyperlinking - an entirely different proposition. If you want to combine files, I'd suggest doing that before creating the PDF.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]