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Word 2003 PDFMaker - hyperlinks in Acrobat 9 Pro form incorrect

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2010-05-20 05:56:10
MaggieS
Registered: Apr 21 2010
Posts: 38

I have a form created in Word 2003 and converted to PDF via PDFMaker (Acrobat 9 Pro).

The form includes a hyperlink to an IRS form, and the link works fine in Word. However, when the file is converted to PDF, instead of being converted correctly as:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf

It is converted as:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs%E2%80%90pdf/fw9.pdf

Apparently the hyphen in the link is giving PDFMaker a problem, and therefore, the link doesn't work in the PDF form.

I can't figure out a way how to do a manual correction of the link in the PDF form. Does anyone have a workaround for this?

Thanks a million! You all have been so much help with my other questions in the past!

Maggie

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Windows
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2010-05-20 07:41:48
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
You could use the link tool in Acrobat to edit the properties of the link edit option to replace the '%E2%80%90' with a '-'.

George Kaiser

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2010-05-20 08:53:12
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MaggieS
Registered: Apr 21 2010
Posts: 38
Thank you so much, gkaiseril! That fixed it.

Still such a newbie that I was trying to do it within Edit Form. Doh!

Maggie
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