Will Acrobat Reader recognize an HTML bookmark as a named destination?

I have a Word file with bookmarks. I make a PDF from this file. How do I code an HTML link in a different file that will open the PDF at the location of a bookmark.
I asked a similar but maybe less precise question yesterday. The response I received had links to articles that described how to use a named destination. One article said a plugin was needed. The article was for Acrobat 7. I cannot assume readers will have the plugin. An article also described some steps to go through probably with Acrobat to identify the named destinations. This set of steps is not a direction I want to go either. I don't want to identify bookmarks everytime I reprint the file. Maybe the question I am asking is "will Acrobat Reader recognize an HTML bookmark as a named destination?"
The response I received yesterday included the following:
You can possibly use "Named destination" instead of bookmarks.
To create them: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd6 15109794195ff-7ca7.w.html
To link to them: http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/link-html-pdf-page-acrobat.html
In my HTML file is the following:
<a href="LinkTestDestinationFile.pdf#nameddest=RevisionHistory">Revision History</a>
RevisionHistory is a bookmark I made in my Word file. The bookmark marks the section Revision History. The link above does not open LinkTestDestinationFile.pdf at the Revision History section. I do not have the plugin suggested in one of the articles mentioned above.

With Adobe Acrobat you can create named destinations.
Bookmarks and named destinations are not the same.

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