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July 07, 2021, 10:33 AM

golddot

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Can someone help me, I have an old PC and I have a word document I need formatted into a PDF file. I have to submit these as PDFs only and for the life of me can not get it done. Is there no utility to convert from word to pdf??

thanks, shawn
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July 07, 2021, 10:38 AM

Flash-LB

Here's one that's free.

https://pdfsimpli.com/lp/doc-t...dEAAYAiAAEgIy2PD_BwE

July 07, 2021, 10:39 AM

BamaJeepster

Unless you have a really old version of Word, just open your document and choose “Save as” and hit the drop down and choose pdf.

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July 07, 2021, 10:40 AM

HRK

That, or, using MS Word, open the document, select print, set printer to Microsoft Print to PDF, it will pop up a window and you can name it whatever you like, tell it to print to the desktop and you'll see your file as a PDF.

July 07, 2021, 10:44 AM

snidera

what office version?
newer (2013+??) you can 'save as pdf' (it will save a pdf of how it would look printed). File->Save As, then when you select the file name/location, there is a drop-down for file type - see if pdf is available.

Most computers can print to pdf, but older ones might not have the software. CutePDF was free/easy for that, but it's been many years since I tried that.

July 07, 2021, 10:46 AM

smschulz

...as mentioned above ^^^^

quote:
Is there no utility to convert from word to pdf??

You can open in Word and Save-As PDF.
No additional program or app needed.

thanks, shawn
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July 08, 2021, 12:59 AM

Rey HRH

If you can't save the word document as a pdf file or print the document to pdf, you can use https://www.ilovepdf.com/

It offers many functions including converting Word to PDF. I've used it to edit pdfs or sign them. It's free.

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July 08, 2021, 11:21 AM

DoctorSolo

It's easy to make non-pdf's pdf's.

It's not easy to make pdf's non-pdf's.

July 08, 2021, 11:46 AM

BBMW

I use Libreoffice because it's free and it works. It allows documents to be exported as PDFs. I'm sure current Word allows this also.

So just load your doc into one of those, and export it as a PDF.

July 08, 2021, 11:43 PM

Ronin1069

If worse comes to worse, my email is in my profile.

Assuming these are not too personal, feel free to email me (or likely any of us) and we can turn them around back to you pretty quickly.

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