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M.L.
The OP specifically asked about Word .docs... "I have done it in MS Word
and there is too much to start over". But I'd agree that using HTML for
such a distribution, with unknown target platform etc. is a better
choice.
I realize the OP asked about Word.doc files but I wanted him to know
that they could easily be saved to HTML, so it wasn't too late to
start over. As it turned out, the OP decided to convert the Word.docs
to PDF, which took a little more effort and won't be editable, unlike
the HTML conversion.