Export from PDF to excel - weblinks disappeared

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Export from PDF to excel - weblinks disappeared

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Hello,

I am using the current version of PDF XChange Editor. I took an existing PDF with lots of weblinks within and made an excel export.

But the excel file is missing all the (very important) weblinks. Is there any chance add the the weblinks to the excelfile?

Thanks in advance for a hopefully quick answer.
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Hello pschoen,

Would you please share the sample file and the result you get?

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Re: Export from PDF to excel - weblinks disappeared

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Hello Stefan,

It seems like I am not allowed uploading excel files in this forum.

I used a common PDF with weblinks within. I converted it to excel (with PDF-Xchange) and all the links were gone.
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Hello pschoen,

Thanks for the sample file! I can reproduce the same here on my end - so I will ask the people who work on this conversion tool if those links are supposed to be converted to Excel.

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Thank you Stefan

It would be great, if the conversion would include the links.
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Hello pschoen,

I will get you an update as soon as I have any further news from our devs!

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Hello again pschoen,

Our devs just told me that Excel can not have links over text as you can in e.g. Word or PowerPoint. Excel only accepts links for whole cells. So for the time being we do not convert any links to Excel, but our devs told me that for this specific case they will see if they can do something (but are not making any promises).

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Hello Stefan,

so I have to deal with it then.

But thank you very much for talking to the devs and your quick answer

best regards

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