Links breaking once PDF documents packaged

Good afternoon, I'm starting off with a word document that I create hyperlinks to files and folders on a shared drive. I save the file as a PDF and all of the links work fine. But once I package the individual PDF documents into one package all of the external hyperlinks break. Internal links to bookmarks within the document itself work but anything pointing outside of the document or to other documents within the package break.
I am able to use the "tools, advanced edit" to edit the hyperlink to correct the link that points to an individual document or file, but it won't allow me to point to a folder on a shared drive. I have to select a file within the folder.
Is it possible to package the PDF's without the links breaking to begin with? If not how can I fix the links to point to a folder?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Mark

In Windows, a PDF link annotation's action does not support folders/directories as link targets.
You mention making a "package" - is this an Acrobat 8 "Package"?
If so, you would be creating an entirely new PDF that contains the selected files as attachments within the new PDF.
Having changed the "environment" any external links that any of the attached files (within the "Package" PDF) have still have the explicit link syntax to a target external to the contents of the "Package" PDF.
Or, restated - Any existing links within one attached PDF to another PDF attached within the "Package" do not have a link syntax pointing to the second PDF within the "Package".
To have a link between files in a "Package" you'd have to make them manually with the Link tool.
As to "Bookmarks" in MS Word - If within a Word file they will carry over into the output PDF.
If from one MS Word file to another they do not. All you can get is a link to the target Word file.
Note that if the link you make to the target MS Word file is explicitly to a *.doc or *.docx file that is what the target will be for the link in an output PDF.
The Word to PDF process cannot/does not change the file extension form *.doc/*.docx to *.pdf.
Be well...

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