How do I repaginate a PDF document in Word 2008 for Mac?

I am trying to repaginate a PDF document made in Word 2008 for Mac, which I have uploaded to Scribd for public perusal.  Unfortunately, whatever I do to the settings for the document it always comes out in reverse order. (60 - 1 instead of 1 - 60)
The problem is not with Scribd, as they just reproduce the document in the order in which it is sent.  Somewhere along the line, the pages are reordered. They are not numbered in the document. 

Hi,
Try this AppleScript :
It will create a new PDF file (the name will be "the original Name + _reverse.pdf"), it reverse the pages order.
Open the "AppleScript Editor" application.
Copy/paste this text in the window :
set a_PDF to POSIX path of (choose file with prompt "Select a PDF file to reverse the pages order." without invisibles)
do shell script "export VERSIONER_PYTHON_PREFER_32_BIT=yes
/usr/bin/python -c  'import os, sys, Foundation
from Quartz import *
this_pdf = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithProvider( CGDataProviderCreateWithFilename( sys.argv[1] ))
if this_pdf is None:
   print \"Error reading PDF document\"
   sys.exit(1)
tName, ext = os.path.splitext(sys.argv[1])
new_file = \"%s_reverse.pdf\" % (tName)
cfstr = Foundation.CFStringCreateWithCString(None, new_file, Foundation.kCFStringEncodingUTF8)
url = Foundation.CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath(None, cfstr, 0, False)
c = CGPDFContextCreateWithURL(url, CGRectMake (0, 0, 0, 0), None)
cnt = CGPDFDocumentGetNumberOfPages(this_pdf)
for page_number in range( cnt + 1, 0, -1):
   page = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(this_pdf, page_number)
   r = CGPDFPageGetBoxRect(page, kCGPDFMediaBox)
   CGContextBeginPage(c, r)
   CGContextDrawPDFPage(c, page)
   CGContextEndPage(c)
CGPDFContextClose(this_pdf)
CGPDFContextClose(c)' " & quoted form of a_PDF
Click on the "Run" button.
Select your PDF file when the dialog is displayed.

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