A Word autonumbering/PDF problem

[Traci Pearson <Traci -at- PearsonTechComm -dot- com>]

Hi all,
A friend of mine has a problem when converting 
Word documents to PDFs. Everything used to work 
smoothly, but now some of the PDF bookmarks don't 
contain the autonumbering (just the heading text).

If anyone can help her, she'd really appreciate it!

Here's what she wrote:

The Word documents have autonumbered headings 
(using the appropriate headline styles).

Before:
All documents were converted to PDF, with 
Preferences set to turn Word heading levels 1-9 
into PDF bookmarks. Bookmarks looked like "2.1 
Heading Text", and "3.1.4 Heading Text", as expected.

Now:
All documents are converted to PDF, with 
Preferences set to turn Word heading levels 1-9 
into PDF bookmarks. Most of the document 
bookmarks are fine, just as they were before. For 
several of the documents, the bookmarks now omit 
the number, and just say "Heading Text". The 
bookmarks are still at the correct levels (ie, a 
level 3 Word heading becomes a level 3 PDF 
bookmark). The document author did not change the 
heading styles in Word. The numbers still appear 
in the text of the PDF document, just not in the 
bookmarks. The problem is on a per-document basis 
- either all the bookmarks in a given document 
are fine, or all of them are missing the numbers.



Traci Pearson
Pearson Technical Communication
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