MS Word Hyperlinks to pdf

Is it really true that there is no way to take the documents I have in MS Word and move them to a pdf with the hyperlinks functioning?
I have dozens of .doc files with hyperlinks that are internal to each and some which refer to another document. In Word the links work fine. When I convert to pdf (either with Save As or with Print) the links show up as underlined in blue but don't do anything.
I could add them in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, but I'd have to redo them all every time I revise my Word document and move to pdf. I revise the documents in Word.
I don't want to create a bookmark page in Acrobat, I want to click on the hyperlink text and go to the new location. I plan on using this on an iPad.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yes it’s a long standing problem Adobe refuses to fix.
If you take document created from Word files and and view them using PC version of Acrobat they show just fine.
Adobe has been spreading around junk about the MS Office for Mac doesn't provide the necessary "hooks" for such.
The MS people have said over and over it a bunch of hogwash, nonsense. They blame the problem on Apple and MS instead of getting down to business and fixing the issue. You have to instert the lnks manually.
I wish software companies when they find issues would just fix the issues with whining and placing blame. Even if the supposed fault was the other party, they could fix the issue and make their customers happy.

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----Original Message----
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----Activities I have done today----
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