Itâs really not⌠There are several pretty straightforward ways to do it and theyâre all pretty old standards. Save as > select PDF as the file type. Or if you have Adobe Reader/Acrobat installed, word has a button right under save as that says Save As Adobe PDF. Or you can print to PDF using the Adobe print function in the printers. Lastly windows has a built in PDF printer by default. All of these work pretty damn reliably. If you canât save a PDF from a word doc, itâs either your computer or you.
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mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
depends
are they trying to export a PDF from Microsoft Word? because Microsoft makes that difficult nowadays
Jyek@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Youâre showing your privilege lol
When you save an office file to PDF and you are in a OneDrive environment, it doesnât save it locally - it saves it to the cloud, and then downloads it locally. itâs fucked up
Iâm not going to fault people for having trouble when the âsave this file as PDFâ option doesnt result in a PDF immediately in the save directory
Jyek@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Interesting considering I can save as a PDF while offline
Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Apparently work computers are fucked up beyond comprehension
God those must be NASTY to use
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
if I remember next week, Iâll try to save one while offline and see what happens
I can tell you that if I use âsave as PDFâ while online with onedrive not running (whether because I shut it down or because it crashed and didnât restart itself), the pdf will not show up locally for me
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Isnât it just alt+fea?
Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Control-s save as>pdf is how I do but Iâm not professional Iâm teen
Still seeing classmates open chrome, search âgoogleâ in the search bar, click the link, just to end where they started is infuriating as fuck
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Canât you just print and choose âprint to pdfâ as your âprinterâ?
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Yup, super difficult. Its not the default, so no one can find it.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
you can still do that
itâs buggier than it used to be, though
RamenDame@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Apparently then it is bad for formatting and reading apps for the visual impaired can not pick up sections when they have been pre assigned (but I didnât test just saw a real, need confirmation)