Re-enable Adobe PDFMaker after upgrading Word
January 24th, 2006
I recently upgraded Microsoft Office and Word went from Word 2000 to Word 2002. After the upgrade I had lost the ability to create PDFs from Word documents, either within Word or using the context menu in Windows Explorer.
I was irritated by this but I had a workaround: print to file using a PostScript printer driver and then run Adobe Distiller on the PostScript file to turn it into a PDF. This produced acceptable results, but without links (for example, you can't click on a contents list item and zap to the appropriate spot in the document).
Well I finally got round to trying to fix this. I uninstalled Acrobat 6 Professional and rebooted, uninstalled Acrobat 7 Reader and rebooted, reinstalled Acrobat 6 Professional and rebooted - but it still didn't work. No "Adobe PDF" menu or toolbar.
I Googled for the answer, which is as follows:
Ensure that PDFMaker is enabled.
Make sure that PDFMaker is enabled in the Office application:
1. In the Office application, choose Help > About Microsoft Word.
2. Click Disabled Items:
Select any PDFMaker file (.ppa, .dot or .xla) that appears in the Disabled Items list and click Enable.
3. Click Close.
4. Click OK.
This solution (and many other solutions to the same problem) comes from:
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/328909.html
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