How to Make a PDF document
This process uses a the PDFCreator application. PDFCreator can be downloaded for free. This how-to assumes you have downloaded and installed the PDFCreator application. There are two ways to create a PDF document:
Method #1
- Open the file that you would like to convert
- Click File - Print
- Select PDFCreator as the printer (this is the default)
- Click Ok
- Close MS Word
- Close Windows Explorer window
- The newly created pdf document is stored on the desktop
Method #2
- Open PDFCreator
- Click Document - Add
- Navigate to the folder where you file is stored
- Change Files of Type to All Files (*.*)
- Select the file
- Click Open
- Accept file defaults - Click on Save
- Select the folder you want to save your PDF to from the list
- Click on Save
- PDFCreator launches Adobe Reader to display the newly created PDF document
- Close Adobe Reader
- Close PDFCreator
