How do I batch-convert Word docs to PDF?

Factual Questions
1

I don’t have Acrobat Pro. :frowning:

I have about 50 Word docs that I need to convert to PDF, and I don’t wanna hafta do it individually. The PDF reader I have here at work is “PDF X-change Editor” which doesn’t appear to have a batch converter function.

Any ideas?

2

Are you sure the “Save As” option in your version of Word doesn’t have PDF as an option?

3

If you have a PDF printer, set it up as your default. Then select a handful of files (not all 50 at once or it won’t work) and right-button-menu Print. They’ll open in Word, print to PDF and close.

4

If you have Office 2007 or better, it should be a Save As option. If you don’t see it, you may need the Service Pack, or you can download the converter from Microsoft.

5

Thing is, the Save As is individual.

6

There are Acrobat substitutes that probably mimic Acrobat Pro’s ability to open other doc formats into PDF.

I just opened Acrobat Pro XI, selected the “convert documents to PDF” option, chose a swath of small Word files, and it went boomp-boomp-boomp opening them in PDF.

7

Seconded. Bullzip is a nice PDF print driver if you don’t already have one.