Save as PDF

[mac]

In Excel and Entourage I can save a document to PDF format by selecting
³save as PDF² after selecting File > Print. In Word nothing happens when I
click this button. I can save in preview and then open with acrobat and
make a PDF document, but am unable to do it directly as in Excel and
Entourage. Is there something I need to do different in Word to get the save
as PDF function to work?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hmmm, that's not good.

The save as PDF feature is part of MacOS. When you click the button Word
pretty much turns things over to MacOS, which uses the printer driver to
create the PDF file.

First thing to try is to run Disk Utility First Aid on your drive. Use it to
repair permissions. Post back whether or not that fixed the problem.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[mac]

Thanks for the advice. You are right -- that wasn't good at all. I did a
restart and ran fsck -y on the drive and now 'save as PDF' works in all
office applications. I had been playing around with the PDFMaker.dot file in
a effort to keep the separate acrobat toolbar from appearing every time I
started a office application. I think I will stick to clicking it away each
time from now on.