When creating a pdf from word, adobe moves my text. What? Why?

Hi,
When I attempt to create a PDF from a Word file online, text slides all over the place and some gets cut off from my text boxes. Why is this?
thanks
cris

Hi Rob,
I apologize, but I'm still not quite understanding your workflow.
You convert a Word doc to PDF and then are you editing the PDF to add a link to somewhere else?
When you attempt this, windows does not respond.
If this is the case, you may want to speak to your IT person. It sounds like a system issue. If I am way off, please provide more detail.
Kind regards, Stacy

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