When converting Excel to pdf by PDFMaker: How do you preserve links created by the formula HYPERLINK (not by using the Excel menus)?

I finally found a workaround that works: Saving the Excel file as a "webpage in single file" creates an .mht file. In this all the HYPERLINK formula were converted to "ordinary" hyperlinks. What's more, the .htm file can stll be edited by Excel, Hence, a pdf may be created from the Excel Acrobat band, in which all the hyperlinks are preserved, and without any formatting hassle.

(By contrast, converting the Excel file to an ordinary  web page (.htm/.html file), and converting this by using the pdf converter in Internet Explorer do preserve hyperlinks, but at the same time tend to do bad things to some of the carefully formatted cells in the origin Excel file)