MS Word hyperlinks don't transfer to pdf

I'm converting an MS Word 2010 document to pdf using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. The word document has clickable hyperlinks to external websites.
When converted to pdf, the hyperlinks are displayed (blue/underlined) but will not click.
I read elsewhere on another forum that Acrobat needs to be set to 'include active hyperlinks'. Will this resolve the issue? If so, how do you do it?
Thanks,

Hi Tim ,
You wont get any hyperlinks by printing the  PDF by File>Print>AdobePDF . That's a flat print which is similar  to the one you get by printing the file on paper . And you don't get  hyperlinks on paper . 'Explicit' web addresses can still be seen as links on a PDF via this route.
Hyperlinks are converted by PDFMaker which is in the acrobat tab of Word ribbon . If you are not able to see 'Acrobat' tab in the word ribbon (Where you see tabs such as 'Home','Insert' etc in word) then you might be using Office2010 64 bit , I suppose .
Please check by navigating to File> Help>About Microsoft word > version , please check if 64 bit is mentioned there .
Thanks,
Apoorv

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