How to use Adobe Acrobat 5.05 in Office 2003

[waldman_da]

When Adobe Acrobat 5.05 is installed with Office XP and Windows 2000
Professional, then a taskbar button is present in Word, Excel and Powerpoint
that provides for saving file in pdf format.

This button is absent when Office 2003 is installed in Windows XP and Adobe
Acrobat 5.05 is installed. Is this a limitation in Office 2003 versus Office
XP?

 

[Tom Willett]

More likely, it is the limitation of that old version of Acrobat.

| When Adobe Acrobat 5.05 is installed with Office XP and Windows 2000
| Professional, then a taskbar button is present in Word, Excel and
Powerpoint
| that provides for saving file in pdf format.
|
| This button is absent when Office 2003 is installed in Windows XP and
Adobe
| Acrobat 5.05 is installed. Is this a limitation in Office 2003 versus
Office
| XP?

 

[waldman_da]

Hi Tom,
I suspect that the problem is in Office 2003 as it does not have any help
menu related information on taskbutton for pdf writer. Adobe would have most
likely corrected the problem for Acrobat 5.05 with an update if it was Adobe
matter.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Why on earth would you expect Office 2003 to have help-menu-related
information on software made by another company? If you go to the Adobe
website, you would see that Adobe says Acrobat 5.x is not compatible
with Office 2003. But it *is* possible to make Acrobat 5.x work with
Office 2003, and instructions for doing so have been posted many times
in this newsgroup and other Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office
newsgroups.

 

[waldman_da]

I believe you misunderstood my post. MS WORD in Office 2003 does not have any
information on converting .doc files to pdf, but does to other formats like
tiff or rtf, etc. By contrast MS WORD in Office XP has this topic covered,
and once Acrobat is loaded there is an interactive Taskbar button in Word,
Excel, and Powerpoint that allows one to save in pdf or directly email a pdf.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word has information about saving to RTF because it provides a converter for
this purpose. It has information about saving as a TIFF because it can do
that with the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer. But there is nothing
built into Word (before Word 2007) that allows you to convert to a PDF. That
functionality is provided by add-ins supplied by Adobe Acrobat and other
software. I no longer have Office XP installed, but I would be very
surprised if it included information on conversion to PDF since this
functionality is not provided by Word, but Word 2003 does have the toolbar
button for Convert to Adobe PDF provided Acrobat is installed *after* Office
2003.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The Acrobat 5 installer pre-dates and does not recognize Office 2003's
Office Start-up folder, where the addin template is supposed to go. Move the
add-in to that folder and you should get the add-in functions returned. See
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm for background.

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[waldman_da]

Thanks Graham
This answer is correct. I appreciate your input.
Placement of the addin template into the startup folder of Office does
indeed bring the interactive capability with Acrobat into Office 2003.
However, Office 2003 appararently is not compatible with Acrobat 5.05 and
thus a message comes up stating that Office 2003 will experience problems.
This is validated by a linked technote on Microsoft, which states that
Acrobat 6 is required to solve the problem and prevent instability in use of
Office 2003.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The message occurs because Acrobat 5 pre-dates Word 2003 - the final update
to Acrobat 5.05 will work with Word 2003 provided the add-in is correctly
located. Spend the extra on the current version - Acrobat 8 - if you want.


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