Missing hyperlinks from MS Word Mac and websites

Question

Dear Adobe users,
I do not have any luck after a few hours' search via google.  I tried to create a pdf file from a webpage with hyperlinks.
After some searches, I knew printing as Adobe PDF does not work as it is a print file.
Then I copy the web page in MS Word Mac 2011 and save as pdf. The resulting pdf file is a just a document with blue underlined for those links.
Creating pdf from Adobe XI pro Mac does not work either. It is another file with blue underlined again.
Some said the ribbon helps. This seem meaningless to use as a Mac user.
Is there really no way to create a pdf with hyperlink from website?  If you are telling me I'd better live with the Word document, I am speechless.
Thanks.

Answer 1

This is a 15-20 year old defect in Acrobat.
This one of those everyone points to Acrobat and Adobe points to everyone but themselves.
Word URLs Mailto from Office Mac were ignored. you had to add them Manual and even doing so they don't turn blue and underline as they are supposed to.  what makes URLs Mailtos work is a unique piece of JavaScript code. unfortunately Adobe doesn't use industry standard JavaScript. Its unique to Adobe only.
I say were ignored Acrobat X and XI have partially  addressed this problem. As long as Urls and Mailtos were created by word by Office's Auto correct feature the Following to methods will work
Method #1:
create the Word Document making sure any URLs and Mailto turn blue and become underlined and work.
save as docx document.
Go to File Menu > Print
Click and hold mouse button (touch pad) down on PDF button until context menu appears.
Choose Adobe quality PDF
Follow Directions as they come up (this uses Adobe PDF Generator)
Save PDF.
Open PDF you should be able see and use all Urls and Mailtos created by Words Auto-Correct
Method #2
create the Word Document making sure any URLs and Mailto turn blue and become underlined and work.
save as docx document.
Make sure Acrobat is Quit
Make sure the icon of Acrobat is in the Dock (some what equivalent PC's Startup Menu)
Locate the file just saved
Drag and Drop file on to the Acrobat icon in the Dock
Wait until Acrobat Processes the File.
When PDF shows up save file.
This method works with Smaller Files best. The larger the file the longer it will take to Process, and be more likely to fail.
Neither Method works Urls and Mailtos created with Word's insert URL command.
That will take another 20 years to resolve .
The PDF command in apple's print menu if you just click real fast and Word's SaveAs... PDF uses Apple's PDF engine that will always not be have active links.
Curios thing if you take a Mac Office word file and do nothing to it and open in Word and create a PDF even the links created by the insert URL command will work. So the issue has nothing to do with the way Office Mac Creates file it’s the way Acrobat Mac Processes Word Files.