[Athen] Word for Mac headings question

[Russell Solowoniuk]

Hi again,

Apparently the instructor is using the method described here, but when she selects “optimal for electronic/ accessible”, she receives the message that  her file is too big.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Russell

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Subject: Re: [Athen] Word for Mac headings question

It may be that the instructor hasn’t had a chance to upgrade her version of Word. The ability of Mac Word to create a tagged PDF is relatively new (not until Office 2016 and perhaps tied to Office 365). The tool is a little different from the Windows version.

Penn State has documentation at
https://accessibility.psu.edu/microsoftoffice/microsoftofficepdfmac/

It also includes an alternate Open Office workflow.

Hope this helps
Ellizabeth



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Hi everyone,

We have been contacted by an instructor who is trying to make her documents accessible. She uses a Mac, and when she creates a document in Word on the Mac and then saves it as a PDF, the headings do not carry over. I recall this being discussed in the past but can?t recall if there is a fix. Any ideas are most welcome.

I found an article that suggested opening the Word document in Google Docs, going through the documents and ensuring all headings were there, and then downloading the document as a PDF. I haven?t tried this to see if it works, but would like a less complicated method, if there is one.

Thanks all.

Russell

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