How Do You Convert A Word Document To A Pdf
Janet Denzel
When you're using a version of Word that's newer than the version used to create your document, you typically see Compatibility Mode in the title bar. Compatibility Mode temporarily disables new or enhanced Word features so that the document can still be edited by people using the earlier version of Word. Compatibility Mode also preserves the layout of the document.
Converting the document to the newer format lets you use newer features, but conversion might create difficulties for people who are using earlier versions of Word to edit the document. If you convert the document, they might not be able to work with certain portions of the document that were created in the newer versions of Word.
You can either work in Compatibility Mode or you can convert your document to the Word 2016 or Word 2013 file format. The Word Convert command clears the compatibility options so that the document layout appears as it would if it had been created in Word 2016 or Word 2013.
To create a new copy of the document in Word 2016 or Word 2013 mode, select Save As, and then choose the location and the folder where you want to save the new copy. Type a new name for the document in the File name box, and then select Word Document in the Save as type list. Make sure the box next to Maintain compatibility with previous versions of Word is cleared.
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DOC is a word processing file created by Microsoft. This files format turns a plain-text format into a formatted document. It supports almost all the Operating Systems. It can contain large amount of text, data, charts, table, image etc. It can contain rich text format (RTF) and HTML texts also.
I have a flow that converts a Word doc to a PDF, at one time. I get an error (Bad Gateway). See image below. I already deleted this action and the 'Create file' action that follows upon this one and set it up again. Didn't help.
Because I have more similar flows, I've tried another flow with exactly the same actions, that one runs fine. I've compared the steps from the flow that works fine with the error-steps - very precisely... Exactly the same.
I made a new Word document. Then I also had to replace the actions in my flow (populate a Word document, create file (Word), convert a Word document to PDF, create file (PDF)). Deleted the old actions and everything works great now ?
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I've created a form where responses populate a word doc template and create a file in SharePoint. This all works fine. The next step should convert the document to a pdf, but I get an error that says --The selected file doesn't exist, please select a valid file and drive. clientRequestId: 0b8924ab-4efe-47c3-991e-a8672fc6386e-- at the 'Convert Word Document to PDF step', However, it does exist. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Below are some pictures of my flow up to that step. Note: in the 'Convert to PDF' step, I've tried, from the 'Create File' step: ID, Name, and DisplayName.
I finally have this working, however I could not get it to work using the 'Convert Word Doc to PDF' premium- Word Online (Business), which I do have an account for. I had to use the OneDrive for Business - Convert file (Preview) in order to get it working. Below is a screen shot of my flow. More steps, but it works.
I realize this was a long time ago, but I faced similar issues and really needed to avoid One Drive. My process worked, finally, and here was the solve: In the Convert Word step, in File it should be / then the Name output from the create file in sharepoint step (it wants a path to the file relative to the document library root). I also needed to be sure the filename when I then saved the converted document back to SharePoint wasn't just the Name output, because I just get a word doc because that is the filename when I created the first Word doc. So I needed to ensure the filename is just recreated and instead of .docx on the end of it, place .pdf. Works great. Thanks, Kev
How did you attach the converted pdf file to email? I am more specifically asking the step before "Add request to sharepoint list". I could not see which pdf file to choose to attach to the email. Did you use the path of folder or the location? I would appreciate if you could share it. Thanks!
Mine is a little different from @Mike44's, because I am storing the PDF files.
First, I populate the template and create the word file in sharepoint. Then I convert it to PDF, save it, attach that to the email, and delete the Word file.
The above answers all fell short for me, as I was doing a batch job converting around 70,000 word documents this way. As it turns out, doing this repeatedly eventually leads to Word crashing, presumably due to memory issues (the error was some COMException that I didn't know how to parse). So, my hack to get it to proceed was to kill and restart word every 100 docs (arbitrarily chosen number).
Additionally, when it did crash occasionally, there would be resulting malformed pdfs, each of which were generally 1-2 kb in size. So, when skipping already generated pdfs, I make sure they are at least 3kb in size. If you don't want to skip already generated PDFs, you can delete that if statement.
Neither of the solutions posted here worked for me on Windows 8.1 (btw. I'm using Office 365). My PowerShell somehow does not like the [ref] arguments (I don't know why, I use PowerShell very rarely).
I have MS WORD 2000 documents which I wish to combine with jpegs into 1 pdf. The WORD documents do not convert - the error says that it is not a supported file type or the file is damaged (the latter is not true). I have read some old posts on this sublect but would like to know how to fix this for my particular version of WORD - I know it is ancient, but.... I am currently using a free trial version of adobe, and I will definitely not be purchasing it if this problem persists.Thanks for any help, Andy
The suggestion to install the 32-bit version was great - this version worked for me - thanks for the idea. I must say that actually finding out how to do this was very time consuming - fortunately someone had done this previously and I was able to follow their suggestions. Andy
Is this a behavior with a particular Word file or with all the files that you try to convert to PDF? Please try with a different Word file and check. If the Word file is stored on a shared network/drive, please download it to our computer first and then try again.
Also please try to create the PDF form the Acrobat file menu > Create > PDF from file and check. You may also go through the help page -to/create-pdf-files-word-excel-website.html and see if that works.
Thanks for the reply. All WORD files fail in the same way. I have tried converting a few to docx files but they too fail exactly the same. To create the pdf I use Adobe Acrobat DC (64 bit) - on the home screen I click the Combine Files tab, top rightish. I drag and drop some WORD files and click the Combine button, top right of screen. The watch symbol appears, so that I know it is processing, and then I get the screenshot jpeg attached. They are 4 Word documents
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