Hi everyone, my name is Kevin. Today I want to show you how you can take
a Microsoft Word document and convert that into a PDF.
It's really easier than you can imagine, and before we jump into it, as full disclosure,
I work at Microsoft as a full-time employee. All right, well let's jump into it.
Here I am on my desktop and what I'm going to do is I'm going to open up Microsoft Word.
So here I am in Word, and I have a just kind of a quick Word document that I pulled together.
It's a resume. The picture doesn't match me, but it has my name on the resume, so that's a little
awkward, but whatever. So, here's my name and I put down my title, so I said You Tube superstar
and maybe not quite but maybe someday I’ll get there. And so, this is my Word document.
It's just a traditional Word document. I can make any type of modifications in here, so
just the standard document, and what I want to do is I want to take this Word document and I want to
convert that into a PDF. So how do I do that? Like I said before, it's extremely easy to do. Now what
you do is you first off click on file in the top right-hand corner and then we're going to go to
save as. And what I want to do is I want to just, I'll put it on my desktop on my PC.
So, I'm going to come up here and we'll just put it on my desktop,
and so by default the document is called Kevin Stratvert.docx.
Docx is the Word file format, but I want to make it a PDF.
So how do I do that?
Well, underneath the file name there's something that says
save as type and so we're going to click on that list and a whole bunch of options pop up.
Some of them might not make sense.
But we have your Word document, which is the default.
You could also save as a web page or rich text format and XML.
There are lots of different options that I have, but the one we're looking
for is PDF because we want to take this Word document and we want to turn it into a PDF.
So, I'm going to click on PDF, and you'll notice now that the file name is Kevin Stratvert.pdf.
I have a few different options I could choose, but defaults are kind of what I want them to be.
But what you can also do is if you know here if I click in the options, you could save the
current page, you could set the range of pages that you want, you could look through that.
Lots of different options that you could set, but like I said, the default looks good to me.
Now I'm going to click on save. And so what you'll notice happen is it just popped up the
PDF in Edge and this is just a standard PDF now. It matches, you know here the PDF matches what my
Word document looks like, but in PDF format. So that's how that's how I set up my PDF using Word.
What I also want to show though, is let's say that you don't have Word or you're not an
Office 365 subscriber and maybe you don't have word 2016 or 2019 on your machine.
You can still create a PDF from a Word document. Well, how do you do that?
So, what you want to do is we're going to go to office.com. What I've done is I've already
logged in. You could log into office.com for free. It doesn't cost anything as long
as you have your Microsoft account. You could set up a Microsoft account for free.
Simply log into office.com and you'll land on a page that looks like this.
What we're going to do then is we're going to click on Word and here too I'm just going to pick,
we're going to go with just one of the standard templates, just as an example,
so here it's creating a new Word document template.
I'm just going to fill in some information real quick, so I'll just type in my first name,
and then I'm going to type in my last name, so Kevin Stratvert,
if I could spell correctly. Whenever you demo things, you tend not to spell as well,
so there is Kevin Stratvert. And now, just like I did in Word on my desktop, I could click on file,
go to save as and you'll see an option here that says download as PDF.
So, I'm going to go ahead and download as PDF.
Now it’s saving the document. It's converting to PDF. It says your document is ready,
I'll go ahead and download it and then here it's downloaded the PDF, so I can open it up.
This is also a PDF now and it's in my downloads folder. So, whether I have Word on my desktop,
or if I don't have Word on my desktop, I could go to office.com, sign in and go into Word and then
create a PDF from a Word document. If you already have an existing Word document and you want to use
the online method, first you have to upload it to OneDrive. Once it's in OneDrive, just open that
document and save as PDF. So, it's extremely easy to create a PDF from a Word document.
There are two different ways you could do it that work extremely well and that's all it takes.
Hopefully that helps you create a PDF document
from Word and that's how simple it is. If this helped you, please give it a thumbs up
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