Combining Word and Visio Files; Maintaining Hyperlinks

[winchella]

I am trying to combine a Word document and a series of Visio drawings (in a single file), ideally into a pdf.  The Word document has hyperlinks to pages in the Visio document, and the Visio document has hyperlinks to bookmarks in the Word document.

I could export both to html and use pdf Web Capture to combine the two and maintain the links.  However, this lost Word formatting.  I then tried exporting the Word document directly to pdf and combining it with the html Visio files, and that did not work.

Could I add the Visio diagrams to the Word document itself and maintain the links?  I expect that both documents will need to be changed fairly regularly, so I would prefer to be able to edit both separately as necessary and combine them in one fell swoop (without any extra hyperlink-editing).

Is there another good way to do this?

[meks]

Why dont you try the Insert Object method both for Visio or Word. Insert everything where you want the links to be placed.

[winchella]

I've tried inserting a Visio object into Word, but the links that I'd established in Visio do not work in the document unless you double-click the object itself.  That is not very useful as I want to convert it to pdf.

Inserting the Word document into Visio only captures the first page; the document has 100 pages and I do not want to save each separately.  Also, I wouldn't have anything to link to until I imported it into Visio, and I would like to establish everything in Word first if possible.

Is there a way to make the Convert to PDF function handle this merge or some other way to combine the files?  I can't find anything.