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That means you can ‘print’ to make a PDF and it can have clickable links – but only if the source has the links in clear text. Sidebar: Outlook does a similar trick – plain text emails can’t have links but Outlook looks for ‘ in the text and converts that into a clickable link when displaying the message to you. This is NOT part of the PDF but a feature of the software that puts the PDF onto your screen.

If recognizable ‘link’ text is in a PDF (eg starting with ‘ ) then the PDF viewing software will convert that into a working link. However most PDF display software has a trick to make working links ‘on the fly’. We’ve all seen printouts with links printed on the page – in a ‘printed’ PDF the text will look like a link but not act like one. However the look of a link (ie blue text, underlined) is part of the text formatting so that is printed. Hyperlinks or url’s in documents won’t ‘print’ to a PDF file – that’s because a paper page can’t have clickable links so the link information isn’t passed along to the ‘printer’. PDF files can have clickable links to web pages or other documents – but they don’t always work when created from a Word document even when they look like a link.

When printing, the source program (Word, Excel, a browser etc) will only pass along information relevant to be put on a printed page. However there are important differences between converting a document to a PDF and ‘printing’ to make a PDF file. The program you print from doesn’t know (or care) that a paper page isn’t really being created. Choose ‘PDF’ from the Save as type list.Īfter you start a ‘print’ to PDF you’ll be prompted for a file name and folder to save the new PDF to. In modern Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook you can Save As or Export to a PDF file.

Both Windows and Mac have in-built options to do this from any program, not just Office.

Instead of a paper page coming out – a PDF file is created which looks like the paper pages.

‘ Print‘ which intercepts the printer output from a program to make a PDF file.

This choice is sometimes called ‘Export’ or ‘Convert’.

Modern Office lets you make a PDF directly.

‘ Save As’ to save a version of the original document to a different format.There are two ways to convert a document to the PDF format: PDF files are usually smaller than Office documents and are ‘fixed’ so the reader has limited ability to alter a PDF they receive. Saving Office documents to Adobe Acrobat PDF files has always been popular – more these days because the tools to do it are commonly available and often free. Web links, bookmarks and page backgrounds can appear, or not, depending on how you choose to make your PDF – Save or Print. How you choose to make a PDF file from Microsoft Office can make quite a difference to how the PDF file looks and behaves.