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Creating 90 page pdf with Table of Contents

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2008-08-26 10:37:07
krufruf
Registered: Aug 26 2008
Posts: 2

Hi. I'm very new at Acrobat - I have Acrobat Standard version 8. I've just created a pdf document which consists of 80 different Excel, Word and Powerpoint documents. I have a table of contents, which was in Excel.
Once I had created this pdf, I created links on the table of contents page so that any user could easily link to the appropriate page within the pdf.

Question: This is a process which I will have to repeart every month. Each month, these files are updated. Is there an easy way to generate the pdf of all 80 pages without having to start from scratch and add each file and then set up 80 links on the table of contents page?

I know when creating a pdf from multiple files you can "reuse files", but in this case I need the latest upated files (all the file names of these individual files stay the same each month, just overwritten with new, updated data). When I select "reuse files", I get the old data files.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm thumbing through the users manual, but am finding nothing that pertains to my dilema.

Thank you.
Carol

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.0, Windows
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2008-08-27 01:12:21
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rbogie
Registered: Apr 28 2008
Posts: 432
you are on the right track. overwrite last month's files with the current files. The 'reuse files' feature should work. (It works for me.) As for the hyperlinked TOC, it is feasible to replace the page with an updated page without affecting the hyperlinks. Experiment with the tool 'document> replace pages' Suggestion: Make the hyperlinks invisible and the text associated with them in dark blue font. The hyperlinks can be repositioned as a unit by markeeing them with the 'select object' tool and draging the lot to a new position on the page. On the other hand, it may be more practical to utilize bookmarks for the TOC in a project like the one described, which is updated monthly, than it is to have the TOC in the form of a hyperlinked table. One needs to experiment.
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