This is really strange, but I was trying to find a forum to post this exact same issue. Paul (macropod), I think you might be misinterpreting Melinda's problem.

Let's say you have 5 .docx files, A-E. Some links in A.docx point to (probably relatively) to B.docx. So you would have a sentence in A.docx that says something like "For more information on this topic, see B.docx") and a link associated with B.docx that opens up that document (maybe the link is file:\\c:\docs\B.docx).

But I believe what Melinda wants to do, and certainly what I want to do, is combine the 5 .docx files into 1 PDF file, with each .docx file being appended to the one before it. We want links preserved, but changed to reflect the new 1 whole PDF document instead of 5 separate ones. So instead of the link being file:\\c:\docs\B.docx, it should be now be something local since B.docx is now integrated in one file with A.docx. So we need a bookmark or something else in order to get to the first page of B.docx.

Does that make sense?