G'Day Pat,

You have two options:

1. Buy a Word to PDF converter (usually a form of
virtual Printer) - search Google for "word to pdf"
and you will find quite a few. I have used both
'Visage eXPert PDF v3' and 'ScanSoft PDF Create'
with good results.

2. Download Open Office (free) from
http://www.openoffice.org/
(Do NOT download the v2.0 beta - it is very, very
good but not yet stable).
Open Office (v1.x) comprises the core of Sun Star
Office (v7), but without formal support. It has four
principal components:
Writer (Word Processor)
Calc (Spreadsheet)
Impress (Presentation)
Draw (Drawing Package)
The component 'Writer' has a significant degree of
compatibility with Word. It will open many '.doc' files
and will 'Save' to PDF format.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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"pat" wrote in message
...
WordPerfect has the ability to "publish to PDF" when you are saving a
document. Doesn't Word have the same ability?? Is there an option to
save a
Word document in PDF format within the basic program??? Or are you
required
to BUY another product to do that???

Thanks in advance.

Pat