Embedding fonts and broken up type in PDF's created in MS Word

Win 7, Acrobat 9, MS Word 2010
As we all know, Word by default doesn't embed fonts when saving as a PDF. We usually solve that problem by using the embed font preflight. The problem is that sometimes the paragraph text is broken up into a billion (well maybe a couple dozen) small chunks of text. When you apply the preflight, it can cause the type to shift position as in the sample:
Any idea why Word will sometimes do this and other time will not?
Thanks!
Mike

Thanks, Bill. I'm in a school district copy and print center and we don't have control over how the PDF files are generated most of the time. My initial testing did show an improvement printing to the Adobe PDF printer vs. saving as a PDF when it comes to chunking up the text. It doesn't solve my problem but it does throw some light on Word's behavior.

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