I need to put my 300 page dissertation (that is a word document) onto a CD as
a PDF file. I have XP Professional and Office 2003. How do I do this? Do I
need to purchase something special?
Please Help!

Neither Windows XP Pro (an operating system) nor Office 2003 have the
inherent ability to generate PDF files. For that you need a program such as
Adobe Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader) or one of the others on the market.

You might try Googling for them or checking some of the vendor sites.

Good Luck |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 4/15/06 3:16 PM, in article
, "HuskerinPA"
wrote:

I need to put my 300 page dissertation (that is a word document) onto a CD as
a PDF file. I have XP Professional and Office 2003. How do I do this? Do I
need to purchase something special?
Please Help!

This requires a separate program. If all you need is a pdf file, look into
CutePDF which you can download for free. It does not have all of the
features of commercial programs, but it does produce a pdf file.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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"HuskerinPA" wrote in message
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I need to put my 300 page dissertation (that is a word document) onto a CD
as
a PDF file. I have XP Professional and Office 2003. How do I do this? Do I
need to purchase something special?
Please Help!

Thanks everybody! I ended up getting ScanSoft PDF Converter Professional 3
and much to my amazement...it was very, very easy to do!!!

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

This requires a separate program. If all you need is a pdf file, look into
CutePDF which you can download for free. It does not have all of the
features of commercial programs, but it does produce a pdf file.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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"HuskerinPA" wrote in message
...
I need to put my 300 page dissertation (that is a word document) onto a CD
as
a PDF file. I have XP Professional and Office 2003. How do I do this? Do I
need to purchase something special?
Please Help!