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cockroachfarm

cockroachfarm

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I use Office Word 2003 to create press releases, which I then convert to a PDF file to send to radio stations, etc.

There used to be 3 buttons on the far left of the tool bar that let me do this automatically ("convert to PDF, email as PDF, etc.") All of a sudden - those three buttons are gone! And the drop down menu for "Adobe Acrobat" is empty.

I'm assuming this has something to do with "PDFMaker"? I'm stumped; I've tried everything - reinstalling, etc.

How do I get those 3 buttons back there so I can just click on them to convert my current Word doc to a PDF file?

TIA.
 
right click over any of the other buttons.....this is will show visible and invisible buttons.....click on "PDF Maker" and your buttons will return. also...you should have a entry on your toolbar across the top that says "Adobe PDF" The same functions are available there as well.
 
also try this... in Word go to VIEW, TOOLBARS, check on the list to see that PDF MAKER 7.0 (or whatever version you have installed) is checked.... it may seem obvious, but if this is not checked you will never get it to display ....
 
I have found this to be the most common problem you are experiencing. Click on Help>About Microsoft Office Word and when the context box opens up, click on the Disabled Items... button and see if anything related to Adobe Acrobat is in that list. If you see something disabled, simply select/highlight it and click Enable and you should be good to go.

As a rule, the Adobe Acrobat tool bar/buttons are hard to get rid of intentionally. They come back normally if you turn them off from the list in Toolbars. You have to open a new document, turn off the Adobe Toolbar and then save the document. Then, when you reopen the doucment the Adobe toolbar will remain turned off. If you use Outlook and Word as your email editor inside of Outlook, the pesky toolbar will more than likely come back eventually. I guess until Bill Gates buys Adobe, you will always have these little issues to deal with.

John
 
What about just going in via the print menu? PDF maker, or Acrobat is just another printer on your system. Go File; then print and choose whatever PDF maker is listed there and it will output a PDF file.
 
Ulsterman, thanks for the link!:thumbup:

I used a combination of three of the solutions offered and everything is back to normal.

Thanks everyone for your kind help.:)
 
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