Convert to PDF - Word Styles - Hidden Text

Question

I have a Word 2003 document with a table of contents (TOC) which is the user guide for my software application.  Using Acrobat Pro 8 I would like to create a PDF which has bookmarks at the same pages as the TOC entries.  The only appropriate choice for the conversion is to use Word styles, as there aren't any headings or bookmarks in the Word document.  I do not need any additional text in the document, so my intent was to attach styles to the TC fields in the Word document.  It appears that the converter only sees styles attached to standard, visible text in the document.  Attaching styles to the TC fields, hidden text, or the the header text for a section yields noPDF bookmarks.  Letting Acrobat look for the TOC styles points all of the bookmarks to the TOC where a user would have to click again to go to the content.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply.
I have been through the conversion settings and created some test documents that were much smaller than my user guide.
What I have found is that if I assign a style to this: Starting the program¶
It will get picked up as a bookmark, unless the text is formatted as hidden.
If I assign a style to this: {·TC·"Starting the program"·}¶
It will not get picked up as a bookmark.
It doesn't work if I duplicate the text and they are part of the same paragraph with the style is applied to the text outside of the field braces:
{·TC·"Starting the program"·}Starting the program¶
The example above will work if the entire paragraph is formatted with the style.
It would seem that the best solution would be for the converter to recognize the TC fields and their level switches as bookmark sources.