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From: Chagnon | PubCom.com
Date: Sep 25, 2015 11:21AM

That's a very unconventional way to make an accessible PDF, and it's probably not triggering the correct Word-to-PDF conversion utility or at least it's triggering a flawed one.

Try this method instead and see if the duplicate tag problem is cleared up.

1) Start with a well-styled Word document, one that uses minimal local/manual formatting and achieves the visual design via Paragraph and Character styles.
2) From within Word, access the ribbon thumbtab for Acrobat's tools. This is the plug-in (PDF-Maker) added by Acrobat into all MS Office applications and provides the best, most accurate tools for converting documents to accessible PDFs. See below if you don't have the Acrobat plug-in/Ribbon bar.
3) From the Acrobat Ribbon bar, choose PDF Preferences (Conversion Settings) and click the correct options for making an accessible PDF; mainly those are Create Bookmarks, Add links, and Enable Accessibility and Reflow with Tagged Adobe PDF. Click OK to exit the dialogue box.
4) From the Acrobat Ribbon bar, choose Create PDF and set the usual items for file name and destination location.

If you don't have the Acrobat Ribbon bar in your version of MS Word, I suggest you reinstall Acrobat and get the plug-in installed correctly because it's the best tool to make accessible PDFs (and for those created PDFs for print/press, also for that purpose, too).

1) Uninstall Acrobat. If on Windows, use Control Panel / Programs to uninstall Acrobat.
2) Reboot your computer (this removes all program-related functions that reside in memory and thoroughly removes the software). I prefer to do a cold boot, that is don't choose to "Restart" your computer but instead "Shut Down" and then reboot it.
3) Once rebooted, reinstall Acrobat from scratch. Make sure that MS Office is already installed so that the installation routine can find the individual applications and automatically drop the Acrobat PDF-Maker plug-in into them. When done, you'll see the Acrobat Ribbon bar / thumbtab in all your MS Office applications.

Hope this helps.
—Bevi Chagnon

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