Replacing pages in accessible PDF's

Hi - Brand new to this forum.  Hoping someone can help... I have an existing tagged, tested and accessible PDF - needed content update, so did that in Word, created a new tagged, tested and accessible PDF, and used Replace pages to insert the new pages into the existing PDF.  Acrobat Help says when you replace pages in a PDF, Acrobat adds the tags from the incoming pages to the end of the tag tree... and keeps the tags for the replaced pages.   That didn't happen - the tags from the incoming pages are not there and, in fact, the tags that were in the existing PDF are not there anymore either - now it just says "Warning, empty page".   Any ideas?
Thanks greatly!

Hi Bill@VT,
Thanks for your response.  Presently, I have AA Pro XI and Word 2007.  I am confused - it seems the Adobe help material is saying different things - my pages say the new tags will come with the new pages, and your pages say not? 
I am suspecting some of the problem may be coming from the fact that these documents have been created over many years using various versions of Word and Adobe Acrobat - since I got Pro XI, some pdf's that used to work OK for our people using screen reader technology suddenly don't read correctly anymore.  I need to repair anything not working, and I need to create a new workflow process for myself to create accessible Word documents from the start.   I'm thinking it may be cleaner to just start over and create all brand new Word documents with accessibility, maybe in Word 2010 or 2013, and then run them through Adobe Acrobat "Make Accessible" function and checker. 

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