Printing to PDF from MS Office: lost hyperlinks if display text changed

Greetings.
I'm using Acrobat Pro vers. 8.1.7 and MS Office 2007.
I'm not sure if this is an Acrobat or an MS Office issue or somewhere in between.
I need to print an Excel document to a PDF with hyperlinks.
Creating hyperlinks in Excel is no problem.
If I print to a PDF (using Adobe PDF Converter printer driver), the hyperlink appears and works in the PDF. No problem.
But I need to change the display text of the link - instead of a URL I need to display a "user friendly" name.
Problem.
If I edit the link in Excel and change the display text, the link works in Excel, no problem.
But when I print to a PDF the link is lost. I get pretty blue underlined text, but the link information is not embedded in the PDF.
Problem!
I've experimented and done some research, but nothing so far.
Any ideas?
Help!
Thank you,
Greg

The links you are seeing in the PDF are likely not hard links, but what Acrobat thinks are links. That is what happens when you print to the Adobe PDF printer. If you want to retain the links in the original form, you need to use PDF Maker (or may be listed as create PDF) in Excel. The end result should be a PDF with the links appearing in the same way as in Excel.

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