Office 2010: Create PDF Documents from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Contributed by Rob Rogers 
Tagged: Microsoft Office By making your Word document, Excel spreadsheet or PowerPoint slides into a PDF document, you allow users who don’t use Office to view the document using a free PDF reader such as Adobe Reader, Foxit Reader, etc. which they probably already have installed on their computer. Office 2010 makes it easy to convert your existing document to PDF.
1. Open the desired Office document.
2. Go to the Ribbon, click File, and select Share.
3. Click Create PDF/XPS Document.
4. In the far right pane, click the Create a PDF/XPS button.
5. Browse to the desired location. Input the desired file name. Make sure that the Save as type dropdown is set to PDF.
6. Select either the Standard (publishing online and printing) or the Minimum size (publishing online) radio button.
7. Click the Publish button.
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Anonymous said on February 2, 2010
headache !
bluejeans2 said on January 12, 2011
No “Share” option — not what do i do?
Chantelle said on January 24, 2011
What happens if you don’t have the Share button? I’m trying to convert a .doc to a .PDF because saving directly to .PDF screws up the formatting, but I don’t have the Share button under File.
Titanicracing147 said on January 29, 2011
The “Save and Send” button has the same function as the “Share” button.
feltstupidwhenifoundit said on February 18, 2011
Or select “save as” an pick PDF from the “Save as Type” drop down
Ewf said on July 5, 2011
File > Save As … change the “file type” using the drop down to PDF and sorted, one pdf.
Ewf said on July 5, 2011
File > Save As … change the “file type” using the drop down to PDF and sorted, one pdf.
lampy said on September 3, 2011
I have tried changing the file type to *pdf, but it still tells me I have no printer…..i don’t want to print it!
In 2007, it would just publish, but 2010 it wants to print!
help
R B L said on September 29, 2011
You can also put a “Save as” button on the tool bar (select it from the All Commands” list) but then you have to select “PDF or XPS” from a drop-down list. This is all definitely a step backward from 2007 when you could do this with one click.
Noori said on November 4, 2011
hi all,
the easy way is open you word document, click save as…. then in file type select PDF, then save it,
wendy said on December 29, 2011
I save the Word doc to my desktop then click and drag it from my desktop to the Adobe Acrobat icon on the tool bar at the bottom of the screen. It pins the doc to Adobe Acrobat and opens it as a PDF when I select it from the icon’s menu.
Alex said on January 16, 2012
both in “save as” and “save&send” my PDF file appears in blue background …..any suggestions? thx in advance