Random missing hyperlinks from Word to PDF

Am using XP/Word2003/Acrobat 8.1
When converting a 5 page doc file to pdf, not all of the hyperlinks are created. Have examined the doc and all links are ok and work from there. The links created in the PDF also work, just not all make the transition! Any clues?

I don't think I use linked text boxes as you describe. The advice from Adobe was as follows:
"Deselect **Embed Tags in PDF (Accessibility, Reflow)** in the PDFMaker Conversion settings, and then re-create the PDF file.
I am sure you will not face that problem.
For the Word document which contains hyperlinks within inside table of contents, reflow of tagging information has to be removed."
I understood the 1st bit and that partially solved the problem. Further investigation by me showed that if a piece of text in a cell was preceded by a hard line break, then that would not produce a link in Acrobat. If I removed the preceding hard line break, then the link would be created OK. It's a work-around but better than nothing.

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