Don't download your document, but rather open it in Google Docs.Email the Word or Pages document to your Gmail email account.The solution was not ideal, but I didn't care, I had to get this sorted asap, and send an updated version to those people who had already purchased! The SolutionĪnd with that all figured out, here's what you have to do to ensure that your formatting stays (relatively) the same, including your live hyperlinks when converting to PDF from MS Word 2011 or Pages for Mac: This was purely because I assumed that, as in MS Word 2011 for Windows, the hyperlinks would have all copied across as live!! – Yes, that deserves two exclamation points 🙂 So, What's a Gal to Do?Ī quick Google search determined that this was a very common occurrence (um, why don't they let you know this when you're converting?! A simple ‘warning box' would suffice) and after a bit of sleuthing around, I found a solution. Here's mistake number 2 – I had several people review the book for me and my editor as well, but never ONCE did I think to double check the hyperlinks, so I never asked anyone else to either, doh! It's Januand you're only a week away from launching your eBook to the world! So, you decide to do a few test runs and offer the book at a discounted rate to your fellow Location Rebelers (yes, I invented a new word, just go with it!) to see how it flies… and within 10 minutes of pushing the ‘Publish' button on your fresh WordPress and OptimizePress install, you get an email from a member in Location Rebel saying that while they absolutely LOVE your new eBook, none of the damn hyperlinks work! You quickly and easily convert the document to PDF simply by choosing “save as” and you choose the file extension as PDF – and here comes mistake number 1 – you don't bother to check ALL the hyperlinks in the book because they all LOOK as they are supposed to, blue with an underline! Imagine this: You've spent the last 3 months laboring away on your first eBook, making sure it reads right, making sure the correct images align with the words in the document and painstakingly adding hyperlinks where possible so that your avid audience won't have to see horrible, long URL's throughout the text.

So, there I was, happily typing away in my Mac version of Word and then later in Mac Pages, completely unaware of the horror that I was going to experience when I went to convert the document to a PDF.Īs anyone that is a seasoned pro with MS Word 2011 in a Windows environment you'll know how easy it is to convert to PDF, all while retaining ALL formatting – something I was expecting equally from the Mac version.īut no, that wasn't what I experienced at all… I know I sound surprised please forgive me for my naivety!

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