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.