Google Drive: You can upload a Word document to Google Drive, save it as a Google Document, and then convert it to PDF.If you don’t have Word, but need to convert a document someone sent you to PDF, you do have a few options:
When you’re ready, click the “Save” button.Īfter saving the PDF, you’ll be returned to your Word document, and the new PDF will open automatically in your default PDF viewer. If you want to, you can change the filename at this time.
But I need to generate them from Word documents, as the Office 2010 promised but did not deliver.Click the dropdown arrow on the right side of the “Save As Type” box and select “PDF (*.pdf)” from the dropdown menu. I can only afford the Adobe reader program that allows reading and limited editing of PDFs. Also, the issue is not finding free programs to print documents as PDFs as an editor, I need to be able to generate PDF versions of Word documents and save them and e-mail them to clients. I also received the error message when I tried the "alternative method of creating a PDF file." Then I followed the link in the MS security bulletin that offered free unlimited support for home users regarding security updates. When I read through the security bulletin, it actually said that a known issue with the workaround was that "Office software will be unable to generate PDF files." So I uninstalled the update and restarted my PC, but the error message still happened after trying to save a Word document as a PDF. As it turned out, I already had installed the Windows driver update in December.
Unfortunately, none of the solutions worked. But nothing has appeared since the first security bulletin in Dec. I can't understand why MS would patch its own OS so it conflicts with its current software version and not issue another patch to solve the functionality problem. I now know that the problem stems from a conflict between the XP security update and Office 2010 (and at least some previous versions).
Sheryl's suggestion does not seem possible in Office 2010 (unless I don't understand it) because Adobe does not appear when you select "print."Īfter many obstacles, I managed to speak for free to MS tech support and the only solution that was offered was for me to uninstall and reinstall Office in hopes that my current installation was corrupted by the patch, which I now have deleted with no positive results.
So thanks, Bill, for clarifying how to use that. I did download CutePDF and it seems to work for Word, Excel, etc. Thanks to those who wrote additional comments.
Instead, it appears that the update takes care of modifying the drivers responsible for creating the PDF files, and this modification fixes the problem exhibited in Word. Note that nothing in the article says anything about generating PDF files. For them, the problem was fixed when they updated Windows as described in this Knowledge Base article:
Several readers suggested that this isn't a Word problem, but instead is a problem with some Windows drivers. When she chooses "save as PDF," she gets an error message: "Export failed due to unexpected error." When she goes to save a document, there are options concerning the format in which the document can be saved. She has a problem generating a PDF file from within Word. Louise has a system that has the Academic Professional version of Office 2010 installed.