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Originally Posted by brokenPrime
In Word, I used to be able to save my documents as PDF files by pressing Alt-F,E,A (I don't remember exactly what menu choices they represent as I don't have time to bother reading that stuff once I know how to do it. But the first one was the File menu, then maybe Export... but whatever).
Recently I installed Acrobat, and it broke.... MS Word! Now I can't use that method to export to PDF. I guess it installed some kind of extension (or something) which doesn't just take more keystrokes. It's also slower and doesn't retain my old settings (like turning off "View after saving", which keeps being set even though I turned it off).
Is there any way to get back to the old menu system so I can quickly and easily save as PDFs?
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What you have been using have been Ribbon shortcut triggered by the Alt key. These are tied to what is in the Ribbon. The File backstage is a part of that Ribbon even though it looks very different.
Adding Adobe added a command to that Backstage tab.
Export has also changed choices.
- Alt, F, E, P will get you to the button to create a pdf/xps document. (PDF by itself is not on this menu now.)
- Alt, F, Y, 3 should bring up the Adobe Acrobat save dialog.
- Alt, F, A, Y, 7, P will give you the Word SaveAs pdf dialog set for pdf.
- Alt, F, P, I will give you the Print Dialog's select printer and let you pick Adobe PDF from Acrobat or Microsoft Print to Pdf, at least on my computer.
The above key chains are one key, followed by the next, not with everything pressed at the same time. It is important if you want to learn a new one to look at your screen to get the next one to show up. The Alt key triggers the Ribbon tips. It shows letters and numbers for the various tabs and QAT buttons. If you press the H key, it activates the choices on the Home tab. "I" activates the Insert tab, etc.
You could also assign a QAT button or a custom keyboard shortcut to saving as pdf.
I know that it is irritating when Microsoft changes something around that you have used forever. I've been using Word for more than 30 years. Get used to it.
