Converting heading/table/figure fields correctly to .pdf?

[saintedix]

I'm using Microsoft Word 2007.

So here's the problem. I have a very long document (300+ pages) that has
made very good use of the list styles for headings, tables, and figures so
that when the document is changed, the fields are automatically updated
(almost a necessity with how much it is edited, and the size of the document).

The problem is, we often times have to publish this document to a .pdf. When
using the Word 2007 default "Publish to PDF or XDS" function, it drops the
heading numbers from the headings in the bookmarks on the .pdf (i.e. the
bookmarks look like "Introduction", "Getting Started", etc. instead of "1.0
Introduction", "1.1 Getting Started", etc.). The numbers are still in the
text, but not the bookmarks.

One workaround is that I used Visual Basic to do
"ActiveDocument.ConvertNumbersToText" which makes the numbers in the headings
appear in the pdf bookmarks, but since the table and figure numbers are
linked to those, they all became zeroes (i.e. "table 0.4" instead of "table
2.4"). So this didn't really work either.

Thanks a bunch to anyone who can help me out. I know this isn't a simple
problem (maybe it is!).

 

[macropod]

Answered in microsoft.public.word.vba.general (yesterday)