I appreciate everyone's help on this question. I've decided not to continue. When I exported the document to Word, it changed so many things (pictures, scanned images of written thank you letters, scanned emails) so that they were no longer understandable.
As a future reference, I will make every attempt to create the document in a word processor and then convert to pdf.
I have used bookmarks throughout the entire document and hope the other faculty understand how to use them.
Again, thanks for the assistance.
D.