So, we have completed our document here. The last thing that I would like to do is publish my file to the PDF file format. In other words, I would like to convert my file to PDF so that I can email it or post it online or send it to coworkers. The easiest way to do this in Word 2007 is to go to your Add-Ins Tab. On my screen, I have a Convert to PDF button. I can go to that if I want or what I can do is choose FlashPaper and then choose Convert to PDF. FlashPaper is telling me that I have to save my document first before I can continue, so I hit yes. Save my document for me and now, I am prompted to save my PDF file. Notice, I am not saving a Word file, I am saving a PDF file. So I am going to save this inside my project files folder inside Lesson 2. Notice, I copy my file name from Word. I will click on Save, FlashPaper Window appears. My document begins getting converted to the PDF file format, and the process is complete.
So let us take a look at what we actually got inside our Lesson 2 folder. So you can minimize Word and minimize any other applications that you might have opened. Go all the way down to your desktop, open up your Project files folder, open up your Lesson 2 folder and there you should find your PDF file. It is the red icon with the .PDF file extension. Go ahead and double click on it and it should open up inside Acrobat. Here, I am on the Acrobat Reader. Acrobat Reader is a free utility that allows you to view and print PDF files and best of all it is free. You can find it at Adobe.com. If I scroll to my document here, I should see pretty much what I had created in Word. If you are new to the PDF file format, imagine being able to take a snap shot or a photograph of your entire document. Then, what you can do is post PDF online or emails them to clients and coworkers and so on. And, that is all there is to creating PDF's.
