From the course: Creating Accessible PDFs

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Adding bookmarks

Adding bookmarks

- [Instructor] As we learned in the previous chapter, bookmarks are required in documents containing more than nine pages. So the document I have open now will also need bookmarks in the exported PDF file. Let's take a look at how to add bookmarks in a PDF exported from work. So I'm going to start here by using the Save As PDF method first. So I'm going to go ahead and go to the File menu and choose Save As, and I'm going to change my format to PDF. And the important step here is to click on the More Options button, and then click on the Options button down here at the bottom. And right here is where we can utilize any headings used in our document to create bookmarks. Now, if you choose, you can also manually create Word bookmarks. You'll notice that's an option, but it's currently grayed out because I have not created any of those inside of Word. But honestly, the most common method is to leverage your headings…

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