Difficulty cross-referencing PDF created from MS Word Mail Merge

Hello!
I'm using MS Word Mail Merge to create PDF documents with Adobe Acrobat 9 (Merge to Adobe PDF ribbon). Adobe allows me to specify the file name to use, which Adobe uses for the first portion of the file name, but the remaining is up to Adobe and varies depending on the total number of documents.
The help shows as: "The PDF will be named using this text plus a series of numbers. For example, if you type JulyLetter in the Specify PDF File Name box, the mail-merged PDFs might appear as JulyLetter_0000123, JulyLetter_0000124, July Letter_0000125, and so forth."
If the numbering was sequential, there wouldn't be a problem. However, if the number of records exceeds 50 documents, the convention changes at intervals of 50 and it makes it difficult to cross-reference without opening the document.
As an example, if there are a total of 67 documents, you get the following results:
Record 15 is named JulyLetter_15015.pdf. (meaning range 1-50, record 15)
Record 20 is named JulyLetter_15020.pdf (meaning range 1-50, record 20)
Record 56 is named JulyLetter_51676.pdf (meaning range 51-67, record 6)
Record 66 is named JulyLetter_516716.pdf (meaning range 51-67, record 16)
The breaks are at intervals of 50 records, meaning that if there were 230 records to print, record 143 would be JulyLetter_10115043.pdf, record 180 would be JulyLetter_15120030.pdf.
Does anyone know where the naming or breaks are controlled within Adobe to just keep it sequential or if there is possibly a cross reference file created that may assist with cataloging?
Thanks

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