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Leachim_Mad
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July 6, 2009
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Hyperlinks from Excel to PDF

  • July 6, 2009
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Hi,

I'm using Excel 2003 Pro. In a spreadsheet, I have a list that is distributed to a domain on a weekly basis as a PDF file. The Spreadsheet contains Hyperlinks linking to URL's. I'm using Acrobat 7.0 Standard. When I create the PDF-file from my Excel-sheet all the links disappear...?

Is there a way to keep the links from my Excel-sheet in a PDF-file...?

Thanks in advance

Michael

PS: Using link tool and edit links directly in PDF is not an option!!

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    ove1
    Participant
    November 24, 2009

    In excel, are you using Insert>Hyperlink or are you using the =HYPERLINK() function in the cell?

    I find that using the Adobe pdfmaker within Excel ONLY preserves links if they are defined by Insert>Hyperlink.

    Any other users found this?

    Its very annoying as I have 700 rows of hyperlinks generated using the HYPERLINK function!! I am not going to redefine them all by using Insert>Hyperlink.

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    Leachim_MadAuthor
    Participant
    November 25, 2009

    I'm using the Insert|Hyperlink function....? = no preservation upon

    conversion!!

    Regards

    Michael

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    Yike_Wang
    Participant
    August 6, 2009

    Exactly the same problem here as well!!!

    I mean, it's just frustrating when the links in Word are kept after the conversion but those in Excel are all gone!!!!

    I am using Microsoft Office 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 7.0.8 Standard.

    Need URGENT help on this!!!

    Many thanks in advance!!!

    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 6, 2009

    Can you post a sample document?

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    Yike_Wang
    Participant
    August 6, 2009

    well, the truth is, it doesnt work in ANY cases!!!

    I mean, you can try it out as I did: open a new excel file, write click on it! in the first cell and make a hyperlink to a document or whatsoever.

    It works perfectly in Excel but after the conversion, all i got was "click on it!" without any hyperlink!!!

    :S

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    raneeq
    Participant
    July 7, 2009

    How about using googledocs? I tried for exporting word 2003 to PDF and all the links are live.

    Thus you may upload your spreadsheet then download as PDF.

    You may have a try. Good luck!

    MichaelKazlow
    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    July 7, 2009

    How are you creating the pdf? If you use the toolbar, it should work to preserve links. If you print to pdf it will not preserve links.

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    Leachim_MadAuthor
    Participant
    July 7, 2009

    I've tried both print and toolbar. No links when I view the finished PDF.

    AmbooS
    Adobe Employee
    AmbooS
    Adobe Employee
    July 7, 2009

    When you use the toolbar in Excel to convert to PDF, did you check the options from Excel - Adobe PDF->Change Conversion settings? The options "Enable accessibility..." and "Add links.." should be checked ON (these are ON by default). Please try after setting these 2 options ON and converting to PDF again from Excel->Adobe PDF->Convert to PDF.

    -Amboo

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