Active PDF Hyperlinks in 3 Easy Steps

ACTIVE HYPERLINKS in Your PDF? You Bet! You Can Do It For Free With These Three Easy Steps

3/13/10 Update: Microsoft Office 2007 MS Word allows you, with ONE CLICK, to create a PDF with active hyperlinks. All you have to do is create the hyperlinks in your Word document and then click Save As >>> PDF. So if you have MS Word 2007, you don’t need this tutorial!!!

I can create a PDF, no problem. But I was clueless about how to create a PDF with active hyperlinks – I’d get frustrated converting a report and finding out none of my links were active. So I just passed this task off to my programmer – for whom NOTHING is a challenge!

Well, I got back a nice email from Andrew, my programmer, with a hyperlink to this helpful video tutorial about how to quickly, easily, and for free create a PDF with ACTIVE HYPERLINKS!

Hmmmm. I wonder if that was a hint.

Thank you Andrew for the link! Thank you Lisa for making the video. And thank you, Google, for giving us Google docs!

Here’s how you can create a PDF with active hyperlinks - in 3 easy steps…

1) You sign in to Google and then go to docs.google.com.
2) Upload or copy and paste your document into Google docs.
3) Click File > Download As > PDF and save to your Documents folders or Desktop on your computer.

Open the file and test the hyperlinks. You’ll find they are active!

That’s how easy it is create a PDF with active hyperlinks!