Inter-document linking: I would like to link from an excel-sourced pdf to a section with a word-sourced pdf. I had assumed that the standard excel interdocument linking command would work from the excel source to a Word bookmark target: =HYPERLINK("file.doc#bookmark3","linkname"). But it does not work. Am I able to do interdocument linking from excel files to within (inside) word files? I would prefer to put the link in the source (excel) file as they may have to be updated in the future.
As you discovered, the links are not reliable. I would suggest instead that you make the links inside the PDF of the Excel file. To ensure you are linking to the right location in the Word docs, you can use destinations (named links) instead of a basic link.
There's a post on my blog about building destinations, at [url=http://www.acrofacts.donnabaker.ca.]www.acrofacts.donnabaker.ca.[/url]
As far as updating goes, if you have the spreadsheet PDF links in place, you can replace the page content from the spreadsheet without having to rebuild links.
donna.
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