Word Documents to PDF, Is There an Easy/Fast Way?

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

Alright got a new problem now:

 

Both of my transcripts that I am looking at are online right now. I am able to view them and save them as individual PDF files. How do I combine them or stick them onto the end of the other PDF file that I am creating from the Word documents?

 

Let me guess, I need Acrobat  :angry:

[Darth Biscuit]

I don't know of a way to combine two PDF's into one other than Acrobat.

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

I don't know of a way to combine two PDF's into one other than Acrobat.

 

Bummer. Towards the end of next month I should have all the letters of recommendation in my possession and saved into one PDF along with my cover letter, resume, and essay. From there I will save my transcripts as two separate PDFs that will need to be combined with the one bigger PDF and tagged onto the end of it. When that time arises, can I e-mail you the three PDFs so you can combine the two transcripts with the other file? 

[PhillyB]

one option is to do a screen cap of the pdf, crop it and drop it into the word document and fit it to the proper size and then save the whole thing as an individual pdf

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

one option is to do a screen cap of the pdf, crop it and drop it into the word document and fit it to the proper size and then save the whole thing as an individual pdf

 

Sounds difficult for someone as computer illiterate as myself but I'll give it a shot!

[PhillyB]

Sounds difficult for someone as computer illiterate as myself but I'll give it a shot!

 

haha there's no way you're worse off than me. i actually made this exact thread in like january trying to do the same thing (but got screwed because i was trying to embed hyperlinks to other components of the documents, which wouldn't transfer over.)

 

to do the screen cap just hit command-shift-4 on a mac and then drag the cursor outline over the document (you'll have to do it a couple times if you're doing multiple pages) and they'll go directly to your desktop. doubleclick them to open them up in preview and save to iphoto, and then you can load them from iphoto directly to word.

[neverlosethefeeling]

Sounds difficult for someone as computer illiterate as myself but I'll give it a shot!

 

If you want to do it the way PhillyB suggested then on your macbook pro (also what I use) press command+shift+4 and it'll bring up a crosshair that you can then, while pressing down the trackpad, drag over the desired area you want to capture. It should save automatically as a jpeg on your desktop. From there you can crop/format/resize the images if necessary and combine them into a single document. The downfall of this method is that it will make your new document unsearchable because they're just images, but at least you'll have it all in the same document.

[Darth Biscuit]

Sure man, pm me and I'll get u my email.

[MadHatter]

Alright so I opened an extensive word document that I already had...I went to File, Print, PDF, then save as PDF. From there I was able to open it in Adobe Reader and view it as a PDF and save it from there.

 

Was it really that simple?

 

Yes it was.

 

You can also do the same thing with Excel files and Powerpoint files.

[RoaringRiot]

Do you not have a scanner?

[MadHatter]

Do you not have a scanner?

 

Unless it is a very good scanner, the quality will be a little sketchy

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

Do you not have a scanner?

I do have a scanner yes

[RoaringRiot]

I do have a scanner yes

 

 

Maybe I didn't read closely enough, but unless you're making a noble attempt to "go green" why wouldn't you print all of the documents and then scan them into one pdf file?  

[OnlyPantherFaninMaine]

Maybe I didn't read closely enough, but unless you're making a noble attempt to "go green" why wouldn't you print all of the documents and then scan them into one pdf file?  

 

Right now I am waiting for some people to send me some of the documents so I guess that didn't cross my mind because I do not have them in my possession at the moment.

 

I do wonder about the quality of the scan but it's worth a shot and I could test it ahead of time.