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October 5, 2023
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Convert Word to PDF locally

  • October 5, 2023
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Hello, I want to convert word files to PDF but not using the upload option to the cloud. Simply convert .docx to PDF locally. How does this work?

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Participant
October 5, 2023

This may technically be more of a MS Word question rather than an Acrobat question.  

When you go to File/Options/Add-ins in Word, do you show you have the Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM addin installed?

Next, still under File/Options, check where your default file location is.  It could be that your default Word location is to OneDrive, or a location on your computer that is automatically backed-up to OneDrive?  

 

When I convert my Word docs, I hit the File menu and have "Save as Adobe PDF" as an option, and it allows me to select/change where it's going to save.  

BarlaeDC
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Community Expert
October 5, 2023

Hi,

 

Running this on my machine creates the pdf locally, I turned off my internet access to make sure it succeeded without internet.

 

 

File -> Create -> PDF from file