Create Adobe PDF error

[SB Rick]

I recently installed Office 2003 Student Teacher edition to upgrade my Office
97 professional software on my Dell Windows XP desktop computer. When I open
Word, I get an error message box labeled "Create Adobe PDF" and the message
reads "The Create Adobe PDF monitor cannot be found. Please reinstall the
Create Adobe PDF". I currently have Adobe Reader Ver. 7.0.7 loaded. What do
I need to do to get rid of this message?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Earlier versions of what was called Acrobat Reader (now Adobe Reader) had a
utility that would create PDFs. Current versions don't have this. When you
installed Office 2003 over Office 2007, you did not overwrite the add-in in
the Word or Office Startup folder that was intended to integrate this into
Word. My guess is that it won't work with Office 2003. You'll need to
uninstall the add-in in order to make the message stop.

Go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and look for an add-in that references
PDF or Adobe. It may be called PDFMaker.dot or the like. Select the add-in
in the dialog and look at the "Full path" given below. Depending on space,
it probably won't show the *full* path, but it will show enough of the end
of it for you to drill down to it. Having made sure that you have Windows
set to display hidden and system files, open Windows Explorer and find the
appropriate Startup folder (the Word Startup folder path is also listed in
Tools | Options | File Locations). Find the file and delete or remove it.