3 Artboards to 3 page PDF-how?

OS 10.4.11 AICS4 - I have an Illustrator document with 3 artboards and when I save to a PDF the 'Save As' dialog option for Use Artboards - All - Range is greyed out. Consequently the resulting PDF document only has the first artboard as a page. What I want is a PDF document with the 3 artboards shown as 3 pages - accurately reflecting the original Illustrator document. What am I missing.

I also notice in the screenshot that both objects on the canvas that are visible under the save as dialog, that look like they contain your artboard content look like objects and not artboards which only one would be highlighted and both of these look like they are highlighted or are objets since only one artboard can be highlighted (selected) at a time.
So check that they are actual artboards. A screen shot showing four artboards also note the drop shadow

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