Word on Vista - Convert to PDF
 

In case anyone else gets stuck with this:
Vista with Word 2003 (but I think any version & any Office App would do this) when you install Acrobat, 2 additional menu items load on the office apps which allow conversion of documents to acrobat pdf.
The menu "Adobe PDF" is there but doesn't work & "Acrobat Comments" menu heading is dimmed.

After wasting a morning I stumbled on why. In Word/Help/About MS Office Word there is a button bottom right with "disabled items" that - is how to turn it all back on.

Doesn't disable in XP, it's a Vista :mad: thing.

Hope this helps someone.

Mods is it worth putting in the stickies?

Just to add to the above, if you have Office 2007 you can download the "Microsoft Save as PDF" add on from https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...displaylang=en for nowt!

Also, if you don't want to spend money on Acrobat, you can get Bullzip PDF writer for free from http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php - works really well too!

Hope this helps someone

Jay

There have been nasties circulating via PDF files recently, so maybe not as daft as it seems on first sight. Agree a clue would be handy though.

What sort of nasties? I thought pdf format was safe

Acrobat has security holes too, and "tainted" pdf's have been used (as seen here http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10...t_in_the_wild/ ).

There's no such thing as a "safe" filetype any more, someone will find a way to hijack it.

How about plain text, .txt, opened in Notepad? Of course the usual disclaimers about double suffixes apply.