Both options you've used ("Print to PDF" and "Save as PDF") will not bring over the links to the PDF document. When you look at the combination of Acrobat and MS Word, you have at least three different ways to convert to PDF: Word comes with it's own PDF generator that is available even when Acrobat is not installed. Once you install Acrobat, you have two more methods: You can print to the "Adobe PDF" printer, and you can use the "PDF Maker" macro that installs a toolbar or a ribbon in your MS Office application. Printing to PDF will always strip out any interactive content (and more), only the PDF Maker will give you a high quality PDF file. Follow Tariq's instructions to verify that the setting is correctly selected, and then use the "Create PDF" on the Acrobat toolbar to actually generate the PDF output file.