Convert Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to PDF.

Save Office documents as PDF files.

When it’s time to share important Microsoft documents, convert them to PDFs within Word, Excel, Outlook, or PowerPoint using the built-in Acrobat ribbon. Save and share high-quality PDFs that are easy to protect and look right on any screen.

Convert to PDF from Office apps.

Share PDFs that display the highest-quality fonts and contain precise formatting information. It’s easy when you use Acrobat PDF converter inside Office applications to convert files to PDF — either online or on your desktop.

Do more with PDFs in Office.

It’s easy to create and share Adobe PDF files in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint for Windows. Send them for review. Even restrict PDF edits. And on a Mac, you can save Word files as a rich PDF document in one click from the Acrobat ribbon.

Preserve more than your look and layout.

Smarter than your average PDF, the PDFs you create with Acrobat remember all the formatting information contained in your Office files. This makes it easy to convert PDFs back to Office files in the future.

Create PDFs on the go.

You don't have to be at your desk to work with the PDF format. Turn Microsoft Office files like Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations into PDFs on your mobile device or by using PDF online services. Plus, you can access recently viewed files from anywhere.

How-to guide

How to convert a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file to a protected PDF in Microsoft Office for Windows:

Open a file in an Office application.
Click Create PDF in the Acrobat ribbon.
Select Protect PDF in the resulting dialog box.
In the next dialog box, set up a password and file permissions as desired to restrict people from copying or editing the file.
Click OK, name the PDF file, and save it in a desired location.