Thanks for your response, Jim. I actually DID write that I am using Mojave; I didn¡¯t think the exact version was relevant. What IS relevant is that apparently Word for Mac (2011, in my case) does not retain the TOC hyperlinks when exported to PDF.
And while I do have access to MS Word Online, as I said in my original message it messed up the formatting of my document. Granted, I could recreate the document from scratch in MS Word Online (or, for that matter, in my personal preference: LibreOffice), but I was trying to avoid that since it is 88 pages and lots of formatting, pictures etc. I have at times distributed as an MS Word file, but not everyone can open those, and we need it to be able to be opened in a tablet and have the TOC links. PDF seems like the best option.
Turns out Otto suggested I give FreeOffice a try, and its TextMaker word processor does in fact retain the TOC links when exporting, and further I was able to open my Word document into it with very little reformatting required. Thanks Otto!
Best,
Jim
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Not certain I can help, but my understanding of what you¡¯re trying to accomplish it the creation of a document in MS Word Mac 2011 that you¡¯d like to be able to
distribute as a PDF from time to time, having edited it between distributions, You have access to MS Word online (by which I¡¯m guessing Office 365 (which of course is at least 3 revisions newer than Word for Mac 2011).
I think you¡¯re saying that ¡°printing to PDF¡± or saving electronically to PDF from Word 2011 messes up the links in your pdf.
You don¡¯t say what version of macOS you¡¯re using, nor what the most recent release of the OS you¡¯re using. If you have access to Office 365, why do you not just use that to create and edit the document? If that¡¯s not the obstacle, and what you need to the ability to distribute a document protected from editing by recipients, why not just distribute as a locked MS Word file?
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Jim Robertson
