How to Create Links in a PDF (Acrobat) Document

Creating bookmarks is one way to make your Acrobat (PDF) document easier to navigate. You can also add in-text clickable links directly to a page. This is especially useful in a table of contents or an index. To create or modify PDF documents, you must have the "full" version of Acrobat, which includes the Distiller program; you can't create PDFs with the free Reader software.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

1. Select the text you'd like to become the link (the text the reader will click on to link to a new location).

2. Click the Link (the one that looks like a chain) tool, or choose Link from the Tools menu.

3. Use the Link tool to draw a box around the text or area you want linkable. The Create Link dialog box will appear.

4. Use the Acrobat navigation tools to display the page you want the link to take you to.

5. Click the Set Link button in the Create Link dialog box to establish your link.

Tips & Warnings

• "Bookmarks" are different from links; you also click them to go to a page, but they appear in a separate pane to the left of the PDF document.

[computermacgyve]

on 6/8/2009 For Acrobat 5, make sure "Goto View" is selected as the action. Then navigate to the page and click "Set Link"

[starlet67]

on 4/8/2009 Great tips!

[zahzel]

on 4/6/2009 I will do this. TY

[doban]

on 4/4/2009 Thanks for easy to understand info on how to create links in a PDF document.