How to Convert Microsoft Word/Excel/PPT to PDF by Using OpenOffice.org?

Now converting Microsoft Office files like Word, Excel and PPT to PDF files is extremely easy. If you are an Office 2010 user, you can do the job directly through its built-in feature. In Office 2007, free “Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS" add-in is available on Microsoft website. As for Office 2003 user, various PDF converters are out there for your choice. Even so, here we still introduce you another easy PDF conversion method. That’s to use OpenOffice.org.

What is OpenOffice.org?

OpenOffice.org, known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite that includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. It allows you to save in formats like MS Office formats, PDF, HTML, and XML. Also, it enables you to import files from those formats as well as WordPerfect and others.

OpenOffice.org is a good alternative to Microsoft Office. Its interface is similar to that of MS Office, and you will find almost everything you're used to, like templates, collaborative features etc. If you don’t want to pay for MS Office, OpenOffice.org is pretty a good choice.

How to convert Microsoft Word/Excel/PPT to PDF?

When it comes to covert Microsoft Word, Excel or PPT to PDF in Open Office.org, there are two ways available. Detailed steps are as follows:

Note: Following steps are based on how to convert Microsoft Word to PDF in OpenOffice. You can use the same procedures to convert Microsoft Excel to PDF or convert Microsoft PPT to PDF.

1. Download and install OpenOffice.
2. Launch the free application and import your Word document.
3. Click “File” menu and select “Export as PDF”.

4. Click "Export" button to continue. Here you can also customize the settings for the generating PDF.
5. Select the location to store the generated PDF file, and click “Save” button.

Tip: After importing your Microsoft files into OpenOffice, you can also directly click the PDF button to save the files as PDF.

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Get more PDF conversion methods

Not satisfied with OpenOffice? Other alternatives are also available:

1. Desktop solution: A large number of desktop PDF converters exist on market and Nemo PDF Converter is among the popular ones. It can help you easily and exactly convert PDF to editable Word (*.doc, *.rtf) documents and convert Microsoft Word/Excel (*.docx, *.doc,*.xlsx, *.xls) back to PDF in seconds. Password-protected files are supported. Batch conversion and partial conversion are available in this tool.

2. Online solution: If you would like to convert Microsoft Word, Excel or PPT to PDF without any download or installation, you can have a try of the following web-based tools. They are totally free.

3. Google Docs: Another alternative to Microsoft Office. Google Docs is Google's "software as a service" office suite. By using this tool, you can scratch or upload existing documents, spreadsheets and presentations and save them to your computer in a variety of formats (ODF, HTML, PDF, RTF, Text, and Microsoft Office). As for how to convert Microsoft Word to PDF by this way, please refer to How to Convert .docx Files to PDF Free by Using Google Docs?

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