Embedding hyperlinks to word documents as clickable exhibits

[Hawk-57]

Here's the problem: A US Federal District Judge has instructed us to file a disclosure that lists exhibits that we will use in trial. He wants them attached to our formal Exhibit list in numerical order with a hyperlink that he can click on and the exhibit document is to appear. The main document is a Word created one that is transformed into a pdf for electronic filing in the US Courts system called PACER. I want to know if is possible to :
a) Make the Word document have a clickable link to each exhibit (these are pdf's in order to be filed next);
b) After making the set of documents can they be made into one pdf that retains the ability to click and see them: and
c) How can I set up a path for the main document and its exhibits when the whole thing becomes a pdf when electronically filed?
I am using MacBook Pro with High Sierra and Word for MAC.
Thanks
Tom

 

[BrianBaughn]

Hopefully someone with experience with PACER will chime in...but...if you don't know how it converts Word to PDF you should be concerned with it working. Can't you file a PDF containing both the list of exhibits and the exhibits themselves?

I'm not sure how or if it's possible to successfully convert a Word document with internal hyperlinks to PDF. This may take a real PDF authoring application.