Resolution for Hyperlinks lost when converting to PDF What I found is that you can not change the hyperlink to display as something different than the actual address. I.e., ACTUAL hyperlink you put in the 'Link to' line is, but you put in the 'display' line something like, 'click here to go to website' so you don't have an the gobbly-gook. This is when your links do not work. However, in Preview you can go to 'tools', 'annotate' and 'add link', then change the default to URL, and you can put the link back in manually. Wconnect tool for mac. Works for me. You can use this for regular hyperlinks that don't work, OR ones that you want to display differently for brevity.

Nov 2, 2018 - MS Word Mac. How to clear all hyperlinks in a document. Ctrl+A = Select All. Fn+Shift+Command+F9 = Clear all hyperlinks. How do I remove multiple hyperlinks in Microsoft Office Word easily? Ask Question. Up vote 3 down vote favorite. As the question reads, I want to be able to select a block of text and remove all the hyperlinks in it at once. Microsoft-word microsoft-office. Share improve this. The key combination being sent to Word is still just what is.

Works for me. I found an EASY solution! (free) I can't believe it. I had been having the same problems, too, but I didn't want to give up.

I tried Google Drive. It worked one time, then not, then another time but the formatting was funky. Anyway after trial and error, I believe I have a solution I can stick with.

1) Save Word document. 2) Upload to Google Drive. Do NOT convert. 3) Get the OpenAsPDF app.

Its a Google Drive App. 4) Open with OpenAsPDF app. 5) Use the Save As dialogue or the floppy disk icon (hah - anyone remember those?) to Save back to your computer.

6) Before saving, change the.doc extension to.pdf. It kept all the links and even kept my fonts, which Google Viewer and Google Word did not. Alternatively, you can do the same with Google Viewer/Google Word. It will keep the links, but I found that the formatting was all messed up and Google doesn't like my very pretty font (Century Gothic). Very important. I hope it works for you! Click to expand.Τhis does not work for me (MS Word 2011, OSX 10.8.5).

The linked words appear in blue but are not clickable. What is your set up? What does work for me is to: • Save word file • On Finder right click the file > Open With --> Preview • Export to PDF But if you have footnotes, they disappear. So always check your document carefully after using this method. Even if it does not have footnotes, other document elements might be affected too. Unfortunately so far the best (only easy?) solution seems to be an online converter.

I used as suggested previously in this thread and it seems to work fine. With all due respect, you are wasting your time. Can produce certified PDFs.

That is to say that your recipient can be assured that a PDF that is supposed to originate with you actually originated with you. However, there is simply no way that you can prevent a reader from copying the contents of a text-based document. Every Mac can take screenshots which can then be OCRed. If push comes to shove, then the determined snooper can retype the contents of a file that he cannot electronically copy. High security PDF? 1) Save Word document.

2) Upload to Google Drive. Do NOT convert. 3) Get the OpenAsPDF app. Its a Google Drive App. 4) Open with OpenAsPDF app. 5) Use the Save As dialogue or the floppy disk icon (hah - anyone remember those?) to Save back to your computer. 6) Before saving, change the.doc extension to.pdf.

It kept all the links and even kept my fonts, which Google Viewer and Google Word did not. Alternatively, you can do the same with Google Viewer/Google Word. It will keep the links, but I found that the formatting was all messed up and Google doesn't like my very pretty font (Century Gothic). Very important.

I hope it works for you! Another option you can try to get hyperlinks to appear in a pdf: • create your document in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac. Then insert a blank line right above the text where you want the hyperlink to appear.

• copy and paste the full link onto this line. Reduce the font size so that it just fits above your text • highlight the link and change the line spacing to 1.0 • keep the link highlighted and change the font color to white - so that the link appears invisible in the pdf you will create • go to the file menu and choose 'save as.'