Office 2007 brings a lot of new features, besides the new ribbon which a lot of people hate. one of the new features in Office 2007 is the option of saving files as PDF or XPS format. normally you have to install an extra program to do that on previous office suites – some of those programs like Adobe Acrobat are very expensive. Now office 2007 comes with an add-in option that you can install to automatically save files as PDF or XPS formats. I don’t know if the add-in comes with the installation CD by default, but I do know you can download it here if you want to install it.
The Installation is straightforward, just accept the agreement and click install. now when you create a document and want to save it as PDF or XPS format, click on the top Office Button, and then click on Save As button.
the option to save the file as PDF or XPS is now available under the list.
this add-in works good on simple text documents, but if a documents contain a lot of graphics, and other animations, it does not work that good. to convert documents with a lot of images and animations you will need to have a full program like Adobe Acrobat.
for me, this is enough.
