Maintaining internal links on Word files placed into Indesign

I want to bring a word file into Indesign, which has a very large number of internal links. When I place the file in Indesign, the external hyperlinks transfer as well as bookmarks, but the internal links do not., The blue colour and the underlining format transfers but the actual links are lost. I don't want to re-link all these links within the document again. Is there a way to bring the internal links into inDesign with the Word file?

Hi everyone,
I know this is from a few months ago, but I just found it!
I deal with PDFs coming from Word that have to go on press a lot. This is what I know. Word's color space is RGB, so we're already starting out with a problem.
1. Open the Printers in the Control Panel folder
Choose the Adobe PDF Driver
Right click to open Properties
Go to Device Settings
Convert gray text to Postscript gray: change this setting to Yes
Convert gray graphics to Postscript gray: change this setting to Yes
2. When you print to Adobe PDF, choose Press Quality job options. This may only show up for those who have the full blown Acrobat installed. If you don't have this, go through all of the job options, especially Color and Fonts. In the Fonts tab, make sure that Embed is turned ON and that there are no fonts in the Never Embed column. If there are, delete them. Under Color, either leave unchanged (which is fine if your doc is all text and you've changed the settings on the driver described above), or choose "Convert Color to CMYK".
3. Within Acrobat (not Reader), you can view separations: under Advanced menu, then Output Preview. Turn color plates off and on as desired. I usually turn off black and scroll through the file. If anything shows up on the page, I know I have something to fix. (For B&W docs.)
4. You can fix a lot of things without having PitStop, but if you deal with having to get PDFs in shape to go on press, Pitstop is well worth the investment!
5. I agree that it's not necessary to place PDFs into InDesign, unless there's something else you're adding to the pages.
I hope this helps!
Tina DeJarld
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