Acrobat XI Pro - PDFMaker in Word

Hi,
I just upgraded from my ancient v7 to Acrobat 11pro.
Unfortunately, however, the installation process did not install PDFmaker to Microsoft Word (2002, running on WinXPpro sp3).
I really need the PDFmaker to be able to create properly tagged PDFs from Word docs, and this seems the only way I can achieve this.
So, how can I get the PDFmaker to show up in Word??
Many thanks in advance!

Thanks Bill, I was afraid that was going to be it

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I'm on Windows 8 and the latest version of Adobe Acrobat XI Pro installed.
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Ok, sorry for never talk since the last time, but I finally discovered why I had this problem.
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