Please mark helpful or answered as appropriate to help other users. Please let me know if you have any more questions or require further help. File > Save As > Change 'File Format' to Export Formats: 'PDF') > Check 'Best for electronic distribution and accessibility' -> exports PDF WITH hyperlinks WITHOUT formatting. The best I can get is hyperlinks and crappy formatting OR good formatting without hyperlinks. You can ask for more help by replying to this post (Reply button below). On OSX + Word Mac, I'm unable to do this. The same or a similar question by directing them to the response. On the other hand, a 'yes' answer to that question helps other users with A 'no' answer on any response will not give you any more help than not answering but will give negative reinforcement to the person who responded.

You are asked below whether this response solved your problem, please do not answer that question for this or any response unless the answer is 'yes' or unless you feel that the response is not helpful to you in resolving your problem.

This forum is a user-to-user support forum. Remove any confidential or sensitive information first. If you want, save a sample document with the problem (Word and pdf) on OneDrive or Dropbox and paste a link here. I do not know that this friction has anything to do with the problem. It was used by Macintosh graphics editors to store black-and-white graphics.

The MAC format supported the display of only two colors, including a pattern palette. There has been a long-time friction between Microsoft (Word) and Adobe (pdf). This is a bitmap image format that was created by the MacPaint graphics program used on Apple Macintosh computers.

Word mac to pdf font issue