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WayneW1956
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February 8, 2012
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What Happened to Bookmarks in Adobe Reader X

  • February 8, 2012
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For the past couple of years I have been creating MS Word 2007 documents with Heading levels 1, 2 & 3 which when converted to PDF became Bookmarks that were navigable from the Navigation Pane. Since upgrading to Adobe Reader X, Bookmarks are no longer part of the Navigation Pane. I've looked through all the options and can't find a way to enable them. Was this feature dropped from Adobe Reader X? Having my bookmarked Headings available from the navigation pane really made navigation through lenghty documents much easier. If this is something I can no longer do in Adobe Reader X, is there a way to roll back Adobe Reader to version 9?

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      If there are no bookmarks in the document when you open it, so when you right click nothing comes up, what if you want to create a bookmark in Reader?


      You can't create bookmarks in Reader. You can in Acrobat.

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      MyOppoH23898761lhm9
      Participant
      April 5, 2022

      Use FoxitReader to create bookmarks.

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      MyOppoH23898761lhm9
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      April 5, 2022

      please ignore my reply

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      WayneW1956Author
      Participant
      February 9, 2012

      Found the fix for this issue. When saving a Word 2007 file as a PDF, in the save file dialog there is an options button. Clicking on the options button gave the option to create bookmarks from Word headings (or optionally from Word bookmarks). Somehow this option had gotten turned off and turning it back on fixed my problem.

        leehar1803
        leehar1803
        Participant
        September 24, 2018

        your a genius, I got mine activated your the process you mentioned.  The option was kinda hard to find at first but once i selected the bookmark icon, it saved the doc and wallah!!! there it was.....

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          Dave Merchant
          Legend
          February 8, 2012

          They're still there. You should see the bookmark icon on the left sidebar just as before; if it's not showing, right-click the sidebar and turn it on.

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          WayneW1956Author
          Participant
          February 8, 2012

          When I right click on the Navigation Pane sidebar, the only options I can select are: Articles, Attachments, Layers, Model Tree and Page Thumbnails. Bookmarks are not on the list.

          Bernd Alheit
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          Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          February 8, 2012

          In this case there are no bookmarks in the document.

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