i've pretty confirmed interactivity between word/acrobat mac vs. word/acrobat pc hosed in situations...please tell me wrong! situation: 2 workgroups need work each other sharing , editing word , pdf files complex documents containing toc, list of figures, etc. problems reproducible on many machine types , configs: 1. word files: tocs not retain hot links within doc has been touched mac, , re-saved pdf intent have linked toc chapter heads. 2. pdf files: have been touched mac, example edit document properties, loose toc function in problem #1 above. in short, rots mac users have share/edit these files pc brethren. solution found mac users this: thing in word 2008. have pc version of word , pc version of acrobat installed on virtual drive parallels or vmware, etc. delete toc using ms word windows, reinsert new one, , use pc distiller installed word acrobat professional create new pdf cross-platform functional. had meeting mac users explain work around , looked @ me cra...