Readers on Windows and Linux will probably see similar results if they’re not using the Adobe Reader. And the chances are very high that if your readers are running OS X, they’ll be using Preview and not Reader to view your PDFs. If your readers are using Preview on OS X, they’re completely out of luck-none of the links will work at all, even though they’ll all show up as blue and underlined. But if you’ve used Word’s Insert -> Hyperlink menu to create links to normal words, as in the “cool company” link above, Reader won’t see those as clickable links.
(In the example above, that’d be the link.) That’s because Reader includes an on-the-fly technology to convert those URLs into actual hyperlinks. Reader PDF viewer, then some of your hyperlinks will work-the ones that are actually URLs, starting with
Depending on what PDF reader your audience is using, they’ll find that either some or none of the hyperlinks will function, even though they all look like they should (that is, they’re blue and underlined).Ĭonsider this very simple sample document: Word, use hyperlinks to various Web destinations, and prefer to send your finished output as PDFs (so that anyone on any platform can read your document)? If so, you’ve probably run into an annoyance with Word and the built-in PDF feature in OS X-hyperlinks are not recognized and coded as such when creating the PDF.
