Make table of contents clickable in word

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Refer to this Word MVP summary to see all of the differences.

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The 'show all field codes' shortcut Alt-F9 in Windows is Option-F9 in the Mac version. * Mac Word uses some slightly different keyboard shortcuts than for Word in Windows. Now press Alt-F9 to toggle the view back to field code results and press F9 to recalculate (or rebuild) the table of contents. A typical simple table of contents is generated by a field code that will look something like this: To edit a TOC field code, press Alt-F9 (Option-F9 for Mac Word\)* to change all field code results to the actual code with its switches. The ToC lines will then all be hyperlinks and should be retained in the PDF. If your ToC does not appear with the hyperlinks in the Word version, you can edit the TOC field code to add the \h switch and then rebuild the table of contents.

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Select the Insert tab on the MS Word ribbon, then select Hyperlink. In the Windows version of Word, if your document is set up with hyperlinks in the ToC, they will be retained when you use Save As to choose the PDF file format and either of the 'Optimize for' options available. Creating a Hyperlinked Table of Contents.

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