I do not sure winword itself to have such function or not. I do not use
winword since winword2000.

Several methods you can change a word document to PDF:

1. install Adobe Acrobat.

2. using Open Office. Use Open office to open winword document, then
export to PDF (export to PDF is built function of Open Office writer).

How did you end up doing it? I'd like to do it too.
Laura

If you have Office/Word 2007, you can install the PDF plug-in and save
directly from within Word.

Below is a snippet of VB.Net code that will do the conversion using the Word
(2007) PIAs.

Bob

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Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word

Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices ' for Marshal

Imports System.IO ' Path

Module ConvertDocToPdf

Sub Main()

Dim openFileDialog As New OpenFileDialog

openFileDialog.Multiselect = True

openFileDialog.Filter = "All Word Documents
(*.docx;*.docm;*.dotx;*.dotm;*.doc;*.dot;*.htm;*.html;*.rtf;*.mht;*.mhtml;*.xml)|*.docx;
*.docm; *.dotx; *.dotm; *.doc; *.dot; *.htm; *.html; *.rtf; *.mht; *.mhtml;
*.xml|All files (*.*)|*.*"

If (openFileDialog.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK) Then

Dim wdSaveFormat As Word.WdSaveFormat =
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdSaveFormat.wdFormatPDF

Dim wrdApp As New Word.Application

Try

Dim oDocFilename As Object

For Each oDocFilename In openFileDialog.FileNames

Dim wrdDoc As Word.Document = wrdApp.Documents.Open(oDocFilename)

Dim oToFilename As Object = String.Format("{0}\{1}",
Path.GetDirectoryName(oDocFilename), _

Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(oDocFilename) + ".pdf")

wrdDoc.SaveAs(oToFilename, wdSaveFormat)

wrdDoc.Close()

Next

Catch ex As Exception

MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)

Finally

wrdApp.Quit()

Marshal.ReleaseComObject(wrdApp)

End Try

End If

End Sub

End Module