How to link bookmarked text from a PDF into word?

[Guest]

In Word 2010 I can use a LINK field (from Insert / Quick Parts) to link to the contents of an entire PDF file.  It looks like this when I hit Alt-F9 in Word to toggle field codes, and when I select it and hit F9 to update field codes, the whole PDF comes in as an 8-1/2 x 11 picture, because that's the PDF's paper size

     { LINK AcroExch.Document.11 "C:\\fullpath\\TestPDFsource.pdf" }

But what I really want is to bring in only one piece of text from the PDF.  So with Acrobat I created a bookmark in the PDF by selecting the line of text and using Add Bookmark.  I save and close, open the Word file, and change the LINK field to this:

     { LINK AcroExch.Document.11 "C:\\fullpath\\TestPDFsource.pdf" BOOKMARKED_LINE }

But now all I get is "Error! Invalid link" when I update it with F9.  If I hit Alt-F9 to see the field codes, then remove "BOOKMARKED_LINE", it works.  The bookmark definitely exists on the PDF - both Reader and Acrobat tell me so.

So is it even possible to create some reference to some text in a PDF and pull only that text into Word?

[Bernd Alheit]

You can't link to bookmarks. You can link to named destinations.

[Guest]

Thanks, but I have two issues.  I found how to make named destinations, but:

1. Destinations seem to refer to whole pages rather than a certain block of text.
2. When I add the name of a destination into the Word file's LINK field I still get the same error.

What I'd line to do is extract just one line of text from anywhere in the body of a PDF.

[try67]

1. No, that's incorrect. A Named Destination points at a specific view setting, ie a specific X,Y location on a specific page number, using a specific zoom level.

[Guest]

OK, got it.  But I can't link to a destination, and that's not really what I want to do.

What I want to do is to extract a few words of body text from a PDF into a Word document via an OLE link (a LINK field in Word).

[Bernd Alheit]

Looks like that Word can only link to the whole PDF.

[Guest]

...but it only displays page 1, and always as a picture.

Never mind Word -- isn't is possible in Acrobat to give some kind of name to a few words of text?

[Guest]

Also, when I remove the bookmark name from the LINK field, all I get is a picture of the PDF's first page, even though it might have several pages.