Why does converting word into PDF does not take the background color of the page?

When I do a page background on a document, and save as pdf, it does not take the background color. It shows only white background.

This may be a limitation with the built in PDF writer in OS X. Never tried it so I have no idea if it does the same on my Mac.
As this is not a MS Word problem you are in the right set of forums.
Have you tried another PDF writer other then the built in one?

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import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
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Why is the background color not applied in one case?

Hi,
I'm using RH 7 and WebHelp.
I apply a TableHeading style to the first row of my tables. The TableHeading style is supposed to fill the cells of the first row with a background color of blue, and the text is in white. It works fine except for one table. I think TableHeading style was not applied in the Word document when I imported this topic. I tried to apply the TableHeading style to the first row, and it says it is applied in the HTML. But, the background blue does not fill the cells.
Here is what I am trying to achieve:
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<p class=TableHeading>Chapter</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border-right: solid #000000 1.0px; border-top: solid #000000 1.0px; border-bottom: solid #000000 1.0px;
          width: 279.4pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; background-color: #003399;"
bgcolor=#003399 width=279.4pt>
<p class=TableHeading>Description</td></tr>
<tr><td style="x-cell-content-align: top; border-left: solid #000000 1.0px; border-right: solid #000000 1.0px; border-top: none;
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<p class=TableHeading>Activity</td>
<td style="border-left: none; border-right: solid #000000 1.0px; border-top: solid #000000 1.0px; border-bottom: solid #000000 1.0px;
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<p class=TableHeading>Keyboard Shortcut</td></tr>
<tr style="x-cell-content-align: center;" valign=middle>
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          border-top: none; border-bottom: solid #000000 1.0px; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;
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p.TableHeading {
background-color: #003399;
punctuation-wrap: simple;
text-autospace: none;
font-size: 10.0pt;
font-weight: bold;
color: #ffffff;
font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
margin-left: 3pt;
margin-right: 3.0pt;
line-height: 120%;
margin-top: 0pt;
margin-bottom: 0pt;
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punctuation-wrap: simple;
text-autospace: none;
font-size: 10.0pt;
font-weight: bold;
color: #ffffff;
font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
line-height: 120%;
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Thanks,
Julie
I don't understand why the TableHeading style is not applying the background color for the one table. I'm guessing I could just add it to the code using the HTML editor. However, I wasn't sure if that was the best way to fix this problem or if I would create another problem.

Hi Willam,
Thanks for your answer, and I will go ahead and add the background color to the problem table.
However, I am still puzzled as to why the background color is applied to the cells in the other tables and not the problem table. I'm not sure what I did to cause the problem - how I applied the TableHeading to the table cell in one case and not the other. Any ideas how I can avoid this problem?
I will not use the Word documents going forward and will only make changes with the RH editor.
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Word to PDF does not keep hyperlinks in Table of Contents ?

I have used my free trial of Adobe CreatePDF before purchasing the annual subscription.
I was surprised to see that the PDF document did not keep the clickable hyperlinks that Word uses in a Table of Contents. As this is the exact same behaviour as the "Save as PDF ..." option that I have natively available on my computer I don't see the point of paying a subscription to the service. Or am I doing something wrong?
MAC OS X Lion (10.7.2)
Office for Mac 2011
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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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Kind regards,
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++bcm

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It sounds like you may have purchased a CreatePDF subscription through safari, using our web interface. If this is the case, the good news is that subscription will also work with the (free) Adobe Reader. Simply install the Reader from the App Store:
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