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Originally Posted by mrniceguy
...When the .doc gets converted to .pdf, .epub, .mobi, and .txt, will it retain the hyperlinks? Will they still work?
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Yes, no, and definitely maybe...
Will they retain hyperlinks? - depends on the conversion tool(s) used and the destination format. Its quite possible for links to be exported as true links to PDF, EPUB, and MOBI. TXT does not support links, but its possible that some tools would include the link data as plain text either preceding or following the text that had the link associated with it in the original DOC.
Will they work? - depends on the conversion tool(s) used and on the nature of the link. PDF supports internal links (those pointing to the other locations in the same document) and external web links, though Adobe's reader software is often configured to deny such external requests for security reasons. MOBI supports only internal links; external links could be embedded into the file but they will not function with any of the currently available readers AFAIK. EPUB supports internal links and most readers do also. Someone else will have to address what support is out there for external links in EPUB.