When Office 2007 was initially released it had builtin “Save as PDF” option. But later it was removed from Office 2007 due to legal objection from Adobe. This is strange since other office products such as StarOffice and OpenOffice do have an “export to PDF” option.

Does this mean you have to buy Adobe Acrobat just to convert your office documents to PDF? Acrobat is much more than a document to PDF converter and it costs about $449 for a single user license. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t pay that much money just to convert my document to PDF!

Luckily Microsoft provides “Save as PDF” as a separate download. Download this addon (about 934KB) now as it may not be available in future. Note that like other products, you need to do a “genuine office” validation before download.

Another option to convert your word documents is to use online PDF conversion tools. PDF Online is one such tool which supports formats such as DOC, RTF, PPT, XLS etc. Remember, it is never a good idea to use this for confidential documents!