Hyperlink in Table of Contents

Hi.
I can make page numbers in TOC to act like a hyperlink (Inspector//Document Inspector/TOC/ tick "Make Page Numbers Links"), but is it possible to make the whole paragraph in TOC to become a hyperlink? It's much easier to click on paragraph.
Thanks
Miran

Thank you both Fruhulda and Peter. In meantime I learned that once exported to pdf, TOC hyperlinks works. And that's exactly what I wanted.
Regards,
Miran

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Good day fgrexsg,
You are correct in that the workflow you described will not produce links in the resulting PDF files. The steps that Lori outlined work great if you're working on Office for Windows in terms of getting the links to work when converting using the CreatePDF service.
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