Meanwhile, Back in the Office (2007)
I stopped writing about all the great new features in Office 2007 because I was afraid I was getting a bit boring, but I haven’t stopped discovering them!
Last week, after struggling with a Publisher file which kept adding a small line to the document upon conversion, I sent it to another VA to try. She had no problem with it, and sent it back to me. When I looked at the properties of the document she sent me back, I saw that she had used Office 2007’s PDF creator.
I had known about this feature, but hadn’t bothered to download it, since I already owned Adobe Acrobat. After this experience, I decided to try it, and sure enough, I was able to convert a similar file without a problem. In addition, Office 2007’s PDF creator is much faster, and it also gives the option of not opening the PDF after it’s created, which saves even more time. Since I typically create several PDFs a day, this helps me to be more productive (and weighs less on my patience). And if I do need to do anything with the document after it’s converted, I still have the option of opening it in Adobe.
