I need to save word files to pdf files. How can I do this best? I currently
have Office 2000 and Windows XP home edition. I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5
so can read pdf files, but cannot create them. I have been told that newer
versions of word can easily be saved as pdf files - is this correct? So do I
need to upgrade my version of word? Does the type of printer and its software
make a difference?

Try buying Adobe Acrobat Pro or whatever it's called.

"alfa" wrote:

I need to save word files to pdf files. How can I do this best? I currently
have Office 2000 and Windows XP home edition. I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5
so can read pdf files, but cannot create them. I have been told that newer
versions of word can easily be saved as pdf files - is this correct? So do I
need to upgrade my version of word? Does the type of printer and its software
make a difference?

Alfa - I dont think this functionality exist's in MS Word Office. Download a
freeware version of PDF writers called CutePDF (search for this on google).
This is a great little programme and does the job

"alfa" wrote:

I need to save word files to pdf files. How can I do this best? I currently
have Office 2000 and Windows XP home edition. I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 5
so can read pdf files, but cannot create them. I have been told that newer
versions of word can easily be saved as pdf files - is this correct? So do I
need to upgrade my version of word? Does the type of printer and its software
make a difference?

You need the full version of Acrobat or one of its cheaper clones - of which
there are some suggestions linked from the favourites page of my web site.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




alfa wrote:
I need to save word files to pdf files. How can I do this best? I
currently have Office 2000 and Windows XP home edition. I have Adobe
Acrobat Reader 5 so can read pdf files, but cannot create them. I
have been told that newer versions of word can easily be saved as pdf
files - is this correct? So do I need to upgrade my version of word?
Does the type of printer and its software make a difference?

alfa shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.docmanagement:

I need to save word files to pdf files. How can I do this best? I
currently have Office 2000 and Windows XP home edition. I have Adobe
Acrobat Reader 5 so can read pdf files, but cannot create them. I
have been told that newer versions of word can easily be saved as pdf
files - is this correct? So do I need to upgrade my version of word?
Does the type of printer and its software make a difference?

Alfa,

You have been misinformed. You need a "PDF printer" like CutePDF (as Jo
Peti wrote).

You can also install OpenOffice (http://openoffice.org), a free/libre
productivity suite with a *very* high degree of com{b,p}atibility with
MS Office. OpenOffice supports creation of PDF files "out of the box".

Some would consider switching from MS Office to OpenOffice an upgrade,
but this remains a point of discussion, upon which I shall not pursue
in greater depth.

--
Amedee Van Gasse