In modern Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook you can Save As or Export to a PDF file. Both Windows and Mac have in-built options to do this from any program, not just Office.
Instead of a paper page coming out – a PDF file is created which looks like the paper pages. This choice is sometimes called ‘Export’ or ‘Convert’. Modern Office lets you make a PDF directly.
There are two ways to convert a document to the PDF format: PDF files are usually smaller than Office documents and are ‘fixed’ so the reader has limited ability to alter a PDF they receive. Saving Office documents to Adobe Acrobat PDF files has always been popular – more these days because the tools to do it are commonly available and often free. Web links, bookmarks and page backgrounds can appear, or not, depending on how you choose to make your PDF.
How you choose to make a PDF file from Microsoft Office can make quite a difference to how the PDF file looks and behaves. Thanks for joining us! You'll get a welcome message in a few moments.
