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cylonx84
cylonx84
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August 24, 2017
Question

Opening UNC links in their native software

  • August 24, 2017
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*Using Acrobat XI*

When I convert a word document to PDF via Acrobat tab > create PDF, my UNC links within the word document get published as HTML links in the PDF. Thus, they open in my default web browser instead of their native software (i.e. word. excel, etc). Is there a way to change how Acrobat reads the "file://" code or a way to not have it convert UNC to HTML?

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try67
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try67Community Expert
Community Expert
August 24, 2017

No. "file://" links will always be opened in the default browser.

To link to actual files you need to use an actual link in Word, not a hyperlink.

cylonx84
cylonx84Author
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August 30, 2017

So just to clear it up, using the "Copy Path" function within File Explorer, pasting it into Word, then exporting to PDF will yield a link that's read as HTML code. Conversley, if you were to right-click within Word, select Hyperlink, Choose "Link to: Existing File or Web Page," browse to & insert the desired file, then exporting to PDF will yield a link that's read as UNC?

I just want to make sure that this is normal functionality between the integration of the 2 pieces of software

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