Acrobat Toolbar in Word 2008?

I have Acrobat 8 Professional and Office 2008 installed. I want to convert a Word document to PDF format *with bookmarks*. I'm a recent switcher from Windows, and on Windows I had an Acrobat toolbar in Word that did this with a single mouse click. All Word headings were converted to nested bookmarks in the resulting PDF. Now that I'm on a Mac, all I can do is create a PDF without any bookmarks. I can't figure out how to get the bookmarks in there automatically.
I gather that Acrobat is supposed to add some kind of toolbar to Word (and Excel and PowerPoint), but I can't find it, and I can't figure out how to enable it. Can anyone tell me how to get access to the Acrobat toolbar in Word, and save me 20+ minutes manually adding bookmarks to the PDF?
Thanks!

Thanks for the info. I am disappointed to learn that automatic bookmark creation wasn't ever available on the Mac. Who knew that there are actually disadvantages of the Mac vs. Windows? :-)
Are there any other ways (third-party apps, for example), to automatically create bookmarks from heading styles in a Word document?
Cheers!

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I will try to find a place I can report this to Microsoft as a bug.
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