No TOC links in PDF

I'm not sure where to post this, so here is as good as any
when you're indecisive I hope ;)
The problem I'm having is that I don't have TOC links in the
PDF when outputting from Word using 1-Step RoboPDF (Save as PDF) or
printing to Adobe PDF. I'm sure I'm missing a setting somewhere,
but I can't for the life of me find it...
I have RoboHelp 6 and Word 2003. (I think the 1-Step RoboPDF
was installed from X5... which, of course, has been uninstalled but
I had this problem intermittently with X5)
Any help appreciated, thanks,
Byron

That's a defect (bug) in Adobe(Mac) that has been going on for 15 years and Adobe refuse to admit it and fix it. In Reference to Links.
The only work around is to use iWork's Pages.
The links should be active. Then Create the PDF from there The links should be live.
I've heard you can do the same thing with Preview, But haven't tried. I know Pages will.
Its no wonder that Apple won't allow Flash on the iPad. Besides not fixing Flash issues on the Mac paltform, They have a history of refusing to fix problems with Acrobat on The Mac Platform.

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