[Athen] Word for Mac headings question

Sheryl E. Burgstahler sherylb at uw.edu
Thu Jul 25 08:56:32 PDT 2019


Russell,
Why is the instructor converting their document to PDF when they already have an accessible Word document?

Sheryl


> On Jul 25, 2019, at 7:13 AM, Russell Solowoniuk <solowoniukr at macewan.ca> wrote:

>

> 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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