Disable Adobe Create PDF online service conversion for Office on Mac OS

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Disable Adobe Create PDF online service conversion for Office on Mac OS

Apart from utilizing a native Office application, Acrobat leverages the Adobe Create PDF online service for converting Office documents to PDFs on Mac OS. IT administrators can deactivate the online service conversion feature and mandate the creation of PDFs through Acrobat or the Create PDF Add-in, ensuring the utilization of the local office application for this purpose.

Feature lockdown to turn off the service conversion in Acrobat.

If you do not want users to see the service conversion workflow in Acrobat, use the feature lockdown keys to suppress it.

Keys	bToggleAdobeDocumentServices, bToggleServiceConversion
Data type	Boolean (YES/NO)
Default	NO
Version #	April 2017 (Acrobat continuous)
Loc path	/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist/Root/DC/FeatureLockdown/cServices/
Summary	Specifies whether to lock the service conversion functionality in Acrobat that allows Acrobat to use the Create PDF online service to convert documents to PDFs.
Details	Possible values include: NO: The service conversion is enabled; Acrobat can use the service to convert documents to PDFs. Yes: The service conversion is disabled; Acrobat can use the local application to convert documents to PDFs.

Disable the service conversion feature only from Office Add-in.

Following are the keys to turn off the online service from the Create PDF Add-in:

• ToggleAdobeDocumentServices
• ToggleServiceConversion

Steps: 

1. Navigate to the following location: /Users/<user>/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Word/Data/Library/Preferences/
2. Open the com.microsoft.Word. plist file. 
3. Create a new key (one or both the keys listed above) of type Boolean.
4. Set the value to YES.

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