It's a common need to want to save and export a Microsoft Word document as a different file type. Fortunately, you can use Microsoft Word to export documents in a variety of file types, including PDF.

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Let's look at the options available on various platforms. If you're using Microsoft Office apps, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint, you can just save the file as a PDF. In Adobe Acrobat Reader, ...

Creating a PDF from a Word file used to be an expensive proposition. You had to either buy a third-party application such as Adobe Acrobat or install plug-ins and ...

Editing in PDFs in Microsoft Word has become a lot easier since Microsoft built in more functionality, starting with Word 2016. Its cousin the Edge browser has impressive PDF capabilities too. While ...