Official Microsoft Office PDF Plugin

There are several third party applications that make it possible to create PDF documents from within Microsoft Office. Most of these add a virtual printer that converts the Microsoft Office document to PDF. There is however an official way to add PDF – and XPS – support to Microsoft Office 2007 and its various programs like Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.

Microsoft is offering a plugin on their homepage that adds pdf support to Office 2007 adding PDF as one of the options in the Save As dialog. That’s probably the most effective way to add support for PDF documents to Microsoft Office 2007.

The plugin can only be downloaded if you have a genuine Microsoft Office 2007. The check will be made before the download link for the plugin becomes available.

Tags: create pdf, microsoft, microsoft-office, office 2007, office pdf, word 2007
Categories: Operating Systems, Windows, software

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11 Responses to “Official Microsoft Office PDF Plugin”

1. Jawwad says:

   February 25, 2008 at 10:29 am

   Martin: but I still think that third-party PDF printers are a better bet because this way you have support of PDF from ANY application with printing support, not just MS Office. However if there is any feature or something extra that is present in this plugin offered by Microsoft that I am missing(as I have not used this plugin so far)?

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2. Martin says:

   February 25, 2008 at 11:00 am

   Jawwad the main difference is the Create bookmarks using option which creates links in the PDF.

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3. gnome says:

   February 25, 2008 at 11:41 am

   Finally, though I don’t think I’ll be using it… Still, nice to know Microsoft cares enough to bother…

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4. Dante says:

   February 25, 2008 at 4:52 pm

   I’ve tried this last year already. And it sucks!!! PDF does not come out properly if you have intricate formating and embedded spreadsheets.

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5. ola dimeji says:

   February 25, 2008 at 8:01 pm

   i don’t know why this is just coming up here. this plugin has been available since 2006! i was expecting some cutting-edge product.

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6. hp says:

   February 25, 2008 at 8:02 pm

   Just wanted to suggest “CutePDF” – free for personal use. and works in any program from where you can print. This installs as a Printer driver.

   good luck

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7. Martin says:

   February 25, 2008 at 8:02 pm

   do you think it is less worthy to be mentioned because it is old ?

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8. Himanshu says:

   October 9, 2009 at 12:31 am

   I have one question regarding MS Office 07 Word-PDF conversion plugin:

   I have a document which needs to be converted to pdf but the document has text in color other than black. So I was wondering if there is any option where I can set PDF converter to convert documents in black color as right now it is converting into black but that text does not look good because it got converted from like Red to black..
   The reason I am asking is because we fax word documents from our system and all we uses is Office 07 plugin to convert doc to pdf and then send it to the fax..

   kindly advise…
   thanks…

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