Converting mutiple excel workbooks

Question

I use Acrobat 8 standard edition.
We successfully convert an existing single excel workbook
with 18 TABS into a single PDF document. One of these TABS has
hyperlinks to other TABS in the same workbook. When we convert to
PDF the links work as expected and we can jump around the PDF using
them.
We now want to convert a series of multi-tab workbooks into a
single PDF document. OK we could combine several PDF's onto one I
know, but the snag is that the first excel workbook is to contain
hyperlinks to TABS in one or more of the other workbooks, so that
when we convert to PDF these links should jump to various parts of
the final PDF.
Any ideas.

Answer 1

Check that you are not using VBA to protect the workbook on Open. This takes much longer in Excel 2013. 
It would be code similar to this:
Sub protectSheets()
Dim i As Long
    For i = 1 To Sheets.Count
        Sheets(i).Protect Password:="password", userinterfaceonly:=True 
    Next i
End Sub
Check out this Link here:
 http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/access-help/office-2013-known-issues-HA102919019.aspx
Excel
Protecting sheets takes longer
Protecting sheets takes much longer than in previous Excel versions. It’s not noticeable when you’re manually protecting a sheet, but if you have code that protects or unprotects sheets repeatedly, it can become a performance issue.
The delay is caused by increased security in Excel 2013 for password protected files, because it uses a stronger hashing algorithm (SHA-512). In Office 2010 the default hashing algorithm for password protected files is SHA1. This change makes Excel password
protected workbooks more secure than they were in previous versions, but can cause a performance issue for some Office Developers.
Workaround This is by design so there is no workaround.
Andy Houghton