How to Create a PDF with Clickable Table of Contents

How to Create a PDF with Clickable Table of Contents

There are two ways to Create a PDF with a Clickable Table of Contents depending on whether you use Acrobat Reader or Microsoft’s Edge PDF Reader (or similar).

Create a PDF with Table of Contents using Acrobat Reader

Open a new word document. Construct your article using headings.  Click on File>Then on Save As>Navigate to where you wish to save the PDF>Click the little Arrow at>Save As Type:>Change Word Document (*.doxs) to PDF (*pdf).  Click the Options Button>Tick ‘Create Bookmarks using Headings.

That is it.  If you open your PDF using Acrobat Reader the side bar will have a Clickable Table of Contents.  Make sure that Bookmarks is enabled>View>Show/Hide>Navigation Panes>Tick Bookmarks.  Your PDF will now have a clickable table of ‘Bookmark’ using the various headings.

Create a PDF with Table of Contents using Edge PDF Reader

Create your document as above.  However, Microsoft Edge Reader does not have a Side Bar for Bookmarks.  So you must create a Table of Contents using Word>References>Click on Table of Contents.  Once the Table of Contents has been created follow the same process to create the PDF as above.  That is:

File>Then  Save As>Navigate to where you wish to save the PDF>Click the little Arrow at>Save As Type:>Change Word Document (*.doxs) to PDF (*pdf).  Click the Options Button>Tick ‘Create Bookmarks using Headings.

You will now have a PDF with a Clickable Table of Contents.

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