Converting PDF Forms to Word and Then Back to PDF with Forms In Tact

Hello,
We are currently having a heck of a time replacing some keywords in a collection of about a thousand PDF forms. These forms were created in Word without any interactive functionality and then converted to PDF. The simple form interactions were then added using Acrobat.
We figured out a way to replace all of the keywords by converting the PDF to Word, and then running a Visual Basic macro that does a Find and Replace on all of the documents at once. Our problem is that we lose the functionality of the forms when we convert them to Word. The docs have to be converted back to PDFs, and putting in all of the form interactivity in each file would take far longer than we have.
Is there a better way to go about this than we're attempting?
Is there a way to do these conversions and keep the interactive forms?
We essentially want the forms to behave exactly as they did, just with a few keywords changed.
Thanks for any help you can offer!

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> Having trouble converting array to spreadsheet string, storing the
> file and coverting back to array with complex numbers
>
> I am working with a network analyzer. I have arrays made of 5 columns
> the first consisting of an integer and the next four consisting of
> complex numbers. I am converting the array into a spreadsheet string
> and then saving the file using the write characters to a file VI. That
> seems to work well as when I open the file in Excel all the data is
> there. However when I try to reverse the process, open file and
> convert back to array, I loose some of the data. Specifically the
> imaginary parts of my complex numbers are all going to zero. I have
> narrowed down the problem to be in the conversion from spreadsheet
> string to array and vice versa. I think the problem may be with the
> 'format' input to the VI. I do not have an adequate resource for this
> so I am not sure what to put in to accomplish my task. Any takers?
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