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Hyperlink from Excel to PDF(page)

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2010-07-25 05:06:23
vinodacr
Registered: Jul 25 2010
Posts: 1

I am trying to Hyperlink from Excel to PDF(to a specific page in PDF)

My PDF document resides on Desktop and the path for hyperlink in Excel ends with (../PO.pdf#page=5) but on click of the hyperlink it points to first page in PDF.
I use Adobe Acrobat 8 proffesional and Excel 2007.

Please suggest the possible solution

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.0, Windows
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2010-07-25 08:54:28
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daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Hi,
PDFMaker cannot process Office specific links that use Office specific parameters to establish something such as an file-to-file Office "bookmark".
Acrobat does provide a selection of "open parameters"; however, they are specific to the use of a fully formed URL link in an HTML file.

PDF open parameters are discussed in this document.
[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_open_parameters_v9.pdf]Parameters for Opening PDF Files[/url]

Be well...

Be well...

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2010-08-04 10:05:16
#2
teledu
Registered: May 10 2007
Posts: 42
As a cludgy workaround, this may work if you don't have too many links to make:-

Create a single page pdf file (for each required destination, and the target of your Excel hyperlink) with a custom link (over a suitable graphic 'button') who's first action opens your Named Destination (page view) and a second action closes the file. This would give your user one additional mouse click to get where they need to be.

No doubt a javascript person could do this without the user mouse click...?
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