Create PDFs from Office Suite 2010 for Windows
The common way to create PDFs from Office Suite 2010 for Windows is by printing to the Adobe PDF Printer which is a virtual printer installed automatically on your operating system when you install Adobe Acrobat. From any program in Office Suite 2010, do the following:
1. Click File tab > click Print
2. Under Printer section, click the drop down menu > select Adobe PDF
3. To modify settings of creating PDF document, under Printer section, click the Printer Properties
4. Click Print button to create the document to PDF file
MS Word 2010 Application
1. On the Ribbon, click Acrobat tab > select desired features such as:
- Create and Send PDF for Review
- Acrobat Comments to import comments
- Mail Merge
- Create and Attach to Email
- Create PDFs
2. To customize Acrobat settings, in, click Preferences to open Acrobat PDFMaker dialog box
- To setup a password for opening the PDF document, click Security tab > select Require a password to open the document check box > enter a desired password in the Document Open Password: text box
- To convert footnote and endnote links in Word to links in the PDF, click Word tab > select Convert footnote and endnote links check box under Word Features section
- To convert Styles or Headings in Word to Bookmarks in PDF, click Bookmarks tab > select Convert Word Headings to Bookmarks check box under Bookmark Options section
3. You can customize some common settings options without going to Preferences
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On the Ribbon, in Create Adobe PDF group, click Create PDF
- In the Save Adobe PDF file As dialog box, click Options button
- In the Acrobat PDF Maker dialog box, select desired option check boxes
MS Excel 2010 Application
1. On the Ribbon, click Acrobat tab > select desired features such as:
- Create and Send PDF for Review
- Create and Attach to Email
- Create PDF
2. You can select the range of the workbook you want to convert to PDF
- In Create Adobe PDF group, click Create PDF
- In the Acrobat PDFMakerdialog box, do the following:
- Under Conversion Range section, select a desired option
- Click Add button to add the sheets that you want to convert in PDF
- Click Move Up or Move Down button to reorder the sheets in PDF
- Click Convert to PDF button
MS PowerPoint 2010 Application
1. On the Ribbon, click Acrobat tab > select desired features such as:Create and Send PDF for Review
- Create and Send PDF for Review
- Create and Attach to Email
- Create PDF
2. You can convert multimedia and preserve slide transitions
- In Create Adobe PDF group, click Create PDF
- In the Save Adobe PDF File As dialog box, click Options… button
- In the Acrobat PDFMaker dialog box, make sure Convert Multimedia and Preserve Slide Transitions check boxes selected
MS Outlook 2010 Application
1. On the Ribbon, click Adobe PDF tab >select desired features such as:
- Selected Messages
- Selected Folders
- Change Conversion Settings
- Setup Automatic Archival
2. To include or exclude all attachments in the selected message in the Adobe PDF, do the following:
- In Preferences group, click Change Conversion Settings
- In the Acrobat PDF Maker dialog box, do the following:
- Select Security tab
- In PDF Maker Settings section, click Attachments drop down list to select either include all attachments in the Adobe PDF or Do not include atachemtns in the Adobe PDF
- Click OK
- To convert all messages in a selected folder to PDF, do the following:
- In Convert group, click Selected Folders > click Create New PDF….
- In the Convert folder(s) to PDF dialog box, select desired folder(s) > click OK
