How to Create a Link in a PDF to Open in Excel

Adobe allows you to create documents with a variety of different options. People use Adobe for its ability to keep the information from being manipulated in the document. If you are putting together a document, you can add links to files. These files include Excel files. If you click on the link you create in the document, then Microsoft Excel will open the Excel file. The links are normally blue and underlined in order to set them apart from the other text, although you can format its appearance anyway you want.

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  Open your PDF document.

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  Select "Tools," then "Advanced Editing." Choose the "Link Tool."

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  Click the upper right of the text you want to add the link to and drag the mouse to the bottom left of the text so the box covers the entire text.

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  Click "Open a Web Page" in the "Create Link" box.

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  Type the file location in the URL section. For example, if the file is in your C drive and called Test.xls, then you would type "file://c:\Test.xls."