Duplicate pages resulting from PDF conversion

Hello!
I've run into an issue I've never seen happen before: When converting a 26-page Word file to PDF, the resulting PDF file duplicates 5 pages of the Word file inappropriately. That is, Table 2 (which breaks across a few pages), is interrupted by repeat pages of Table 1. Weirder still, the pagination in the PDF has adapted, so the numbering doesn't show 16, 17, 7-11, 18. All the pagination looks proper, except the document has 5 extra pages (the duplicated pages).
This might be a Word issue, not a PDF issue, but I thought I'd start here to see if anyone has ever had this problem. Formatting marks in Word don't reveal anything out of the ordinary--and I can't even imagine a way to purposefully make this happen, anyway.
Thanks for any insight in advance!

In WORD try these for comparison: 1. Print to the Adobe PDF printer and 2. Use the Adobe menu to convert to PDF (this is PDF Maker). There are possibly 2 conversion to PDF processes in the file menu. One is equivalent to PDF Maker (Save As Adobe PDF) and the other is the MS conversion to PDF (Save As PDF or XPS).
One additional issue you may run into (since you mentioned page numbers) is a change in formating when creating the PDF. To avoid this change, be sure the Adobe PDF printer is selected in the print menu before editing the DOC file. Another option is to make the Adobe PDF printer the default.

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