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Subject:Re: Microsoft Word Questions From:brianlindgren -at- aol -dot- com To:ActionA -at- aol -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:37:04 -0400
I've tried created auxiliary styles that parallel the numbered styles but actually use letters. Because the Microsoft footer feature only lets you incorporate the style from one of the prefab styles, not one that you create, I have typically overwritten headings 8 and 9 -- generally not used in most documents -- with things such as Index and Glossary. This can work.
An alternative might be to maintain the index and glossary files as separate, then use the advanced book-building TOC feature to string together the files and generate a single TOC.
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From: ActionA -at- aol -dot- com
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Sent: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:22 am
Subject: Re: Microsoft Word Questions
Hi All,
Thank you to the folks who responded. Since I (and my client) was hoping
that there was something easy that I overlooked, I'm advising the client to
either live without an automated solution (the manual solution is not what they
want), or to switch to Frame (which is what they should have used for this
application, IMHO).
Regards,
Nancy Adams
In a message dated 9/19/2007 10:14:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com writes:
Bear wrote:
Re the index: AFAIK there is simply no way to convert a Word index into
hyperlinked bookmarks in a PDF. Perhaps there's an add-on package, but
it's simply not possible with the standard Acrobat PDFMaker or Acrobat
Distiller or the Acrobat PDF print driver.
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Wow! I guess I owe an apology to Nitro-PDF (my Frugal Converter). Now
I'm interested, might see if manually-inserted bookmarks make it through
the conversion process. As I said, my folks are still at the "there are
words on paper? And they actually make sense? That's new and
different!" stage. I'm sure we'll become more technologically
sophisticated once the shine of this new program wears off -- so I
should start looking in those areas now.
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