I am using Word 2016 Mac and want to publish a document to PDF so I can use it on a website, the document contains hyperlinks to web addresses.
Simply getting Word to create the PDF file fails – the hyperlinks no longer work, they look OK but are dead. So tried opening the Word document in Pages – the PDF file is now fine with all links working, but the formatting is a little off throughout, so lots of work to get it all looking nice again.Trying Preview has the same formatting issues, but less scope to fix them. Incidentally, the Pages version of the PDF is a third the size of the Word version.

There is currently not much you can do to fix this.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2637026

The conversion to PDF doesn’t support the metadata necessary to recreate the hyperlinks. It works fine if you use the full URL but not hyperlink.

Sounds exactly as if they don’t give a …….
Glad I did not pay full price!

You could try Apache openoffice instead. I seem to remember it working with that.

Have you tried printing to a pdf in word? I suspect this may not produce the desired results too.

You could try Foxit reader, can create PDF docs from MS Word docs. I expect that you will then be able to create the hyperlinks using this but I don’t know for sure.

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/products/pdf-reader/

Thanks for the suggestion, but Foxit is rather more limited on OSX than windows – it does not even allow creation of PDF files!