Exporting sounds in Pages document to PC users

Is it possible to export a Pages document with sound clips embedded, to a PC user?
I tried exporting as a PDF but even when I opened this on my iMac with Preview or Adobe Reader, the sound clip icon was missing.
I exported as a Word document (which created the .doc file and a folder with the media files in it) and when I moved these to a PC and tried opening the .doc in Word general formatting was intact and there was an icon for the sound clip, but I couldn't seem to click or double click and get the sounds to play.
I tried exporting as an HTML and while the sounds would play, the general formatting was lost.
Any hope of doing this? (My intention would be to email someone with a PC with the document (and perhaps media files) attached.

Thanks for the reply, Magnus.
I guess I have to accept this, but one thing that puzzles me about your reply:
"In theory both Word and PDF should take embedded sounds, but Apple has not implemented the feature"
This implies it is the Apple software that is the weak link. Yet in a Pages document I can clearly have the imbedded audio. So is it in their implementation of their export features where the audio is stripped out or is it the inability of the 3rd party products I tried (Adobe Reader and Word) to handle what might really be imbedded?

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