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Writing a Word hyperlink to a specific page of a local stored pdf

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June 18, 2026
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I'm writing because I haven't been able to solve this problem.

I'm generating a DOCX file using Microsoft Word.

I need to insert hyperlinks to specific pages in several PDF files stored on my computer's local drive.

When I click a hyperlink, the PDF opens at the location where I left it during my last viewing, but it ignores the page number I specify at the end of the link using the #page=12 syntax (where 12 is the page that should open immediately).

TonicueaAuthor

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ll, my PDF’s are stored in Google Drive.

My goal would be the following: open up with Acrobat files stored in google drive in a specific page. Can you address me correctly ?

TonicueaAuthor

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Any simpler solution ?

ls_rbls

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@Tonicuea ,

If you are working with many PDFs, that is the simplest solution and most effective. All you have to do is copy the original PDFs to a OneDrive (cloud-based folder). This is to trick the action to open the PDF as if it is backed up in a “mini-server”.

The second simplest solution is illustrated in my first reply. But you already indicated that the URL link it has to be triggered from inside the MS Word Document.

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TonicueaAuthor

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that’s deeply sad

TonicueaAuthor

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Dear ls-rbls thank for your reply.

No, link MUST be opened from Word document hyperlynk
Well, in word all hyperlinks to an adobe document open such documents but you have not the opportunity to open a specific page of the pdf document

This is my aim !

ls_rbls

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You’re very welcome… and that explains it.

Unfortunately, that “#page=” parameter argument is not a local disk link mapping syntax recognized by MS Word, because it is actually an URL fragment.

As such, MS Word automatically gets rid of any URL portions (such as the “#” fragment of that URL) and therefore, it is treated as an invalid character when you use it as a link that points to local files on a Windows computer hard drive.

There is a manual method that would allow to work around that, but it is very time consuming because you have to do some manual changes to both the DOCX file and the desired PDF file page number.

However, use this answer as the main reference: how do I link to a specific page in a PDF on my filesystem? and use this additional reference for more context: Excel Hyperlink function to open a specific page

As you may notice, this is not a problem of Acrobat nor Microsoft Office, but rather a triple layer of programming language incompatibility due to entirely different programming environments.

While Acrobat command language natively understands open action parameters (ONLY if it is passed as a true web URL), Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), to include VBA Macros, depend entirely on Windows file-system handling when you use a local file path.

It cannot pass page parameters to local files.

That being the case, and since you’ve stated that links MUST be opened natively with Microsoft Word hyperlinks, you may use a virtual server loopback workaround instead (which has been recommended and answered before in the older Acrobat support forum referenced above).

For your particular workflow try this:

Copy all the desired PDFs that you want to be hyperlinked directly from a DOCX file into a Microsoft OneDrive sync folder

And instead of mapping the hyperlink to your C:\ drive, copy the URL file link of the OneDrive sync folder and paste it in your MS Word DOCX document; append the “#page=12” parameter to that hyperlink copied from the sync OneDrive folder

The OneDrive web-based URL link will now allow the seamless integration from your computer’s local file path into a genuine URL web link (i.e. HTTP, HTTPS) that Acrobat can pull as a page parameter out of your MS Word file

Let us know if this help.

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ls_rbls

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Hi @Tonicuea ,

If this is just for a couple of MS Word DOCX files with only a few hyperlinks, it is easier to just convert to Acrobat and edit the hyperlinks manually with the Edit Tool:

Edit PDF => Link => “Add/Edit Web or Document Link”
Paste the path with the page number
Click OK and save

However, it may be possible that it is failing because of the conversion to PDF method (from DOCX to PDF)

Let’s say for example that you insert your hyperlink in MS Word as you already have it. It should fail when you click the link inside of MS Word, correct?

Which conversion method are you using? (just curious)

What happens if you use “Save AS” => PDF instead of the Adobe Acrobat Add-In (or vice versa) ?

If you use Save As PDF , the link should work successfully when you click the link on the newly created PDF (viewed in Acrobat) because PDF to PDF supports the #page= syntax.

If this is not the case, please elaborate in a little more detail how the file is created from DOCX to PDF.

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