Quite often used for publishing a variety of text documents. With its help, electronic versions of journals, scientific papers and fiction books are published. In this article, you can learn how to save a Word document in PDF format.
Save a Word document to PDF using standard tools
The easiest way to save a Word document in PDF format is to save it using standard Word text editor tools. In order to use this method, you need to install the add-on " 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS", which is possible.
After downloading and installing this add-on, in the menu " File - Save and Send» item « Create PDF/XPS Document”, with which you can save documents in PDF format directly from the Word text editor.
After using the " Create PDF/XPS Document» A window will open for you to save the PDF file. Here you need to select a folder, specify a file name and click on the "Publish" button.
After that, the PDF file you saved will appear in the selected folder.
Save a Word document to PDF using online services
Another way is online services for. With their help, you can quickly save a Word document to PDF format, even if you do not have a Word text editor installed on your computer.
There are many such online services. In this article, we will consider a service located at . In order to use this service, you need to click on the "Select File" button and select the Word document you need. After that, you just need to click on the "Convert" button.
After the conversion is completed, the download of the resulting PDF file will automatically start.
Save Word document to PDF using PDF printers
The last way to save Word documents in PDF format is with so-called PDF printers. A PDF printer is a program that creates a virtual printer in the system. With the help of such a virtual printer, you can save any document in PDF format.
In order to use this method, you need to install the PDF printer program on your computer. For example, you can install a free PDF printer.
After installing this program, a printer called "DoPDF" will appear in the list of printers. With this printer you need to print your Word document. To do this, open a Word document, go to the menu " File - Print"And select the printer with the name" DoPDF". After that, click on the "Print".
DoPDF will then save your Word document to PDF format.
In most cases, when we finish working with text documents in Word, we need to save them to our computer. This can be done in several ways.
Saving a document for the first time
Each user must know how to save a document in Word. This is fairly easy to do if you are saving a document for the first time. To do this, just click once with the left mouse button "Save" on the quick access toolbar (at the top of the document). It looks like a small blue floppy disk. You can also use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + S (alternatively).
Whatever method you use, a dialog box will appear in front of you. In it you can give a name to the file, determine its format and save location. The Word program provides its users with the ability to set the default location for saving new documents. To do this, you need to configure the settings for saving documents in the same dialog box.
Resaving a document
If you are working in an already saved document, making some changes to it and want to save them, then you can use the button on the Quick Access Toolbar again. It is especially useful to do this periodically if you know that your computer has a habit of freezing.
An existing document can also be saved as a new one. To do this, in the tab 
"File" select "Save As...". The dialog box will again prompt you to select a name, format, and save location. Quite often, users resort to such a function in a situation where they need to save both versions of a document (the original and the revised one).
We looked at how to create a document in Microsoft Word.
If you have Word 2010, then you will have the "File" button, the far left in the main menu.
There are three main directions in the dialog box. The first is where you want to save your document, the second is how you want to name it, the third is to choose the file type.
Let's consider all three directions in turn.
The choice of the save location is located right at the top. By default, the computer prompts you to save the file to the Documents folder, which is already on your computer. To see it, click the arrow in the top left corner.
In the picture above, you can see the drop-down menu and the fact that we are now in the folder Library. If you are a Windows Vista user, then you will not see the Library entry. Instead, there will be a record Users. This folder will then contain another folder with the name that the user used when setting up the computer.
For example, Users>Leonid>Documents
Inside the Library folder there is another folder called The documents. We save, for example, our file in this folder. The dialog box also shows other folders that were also in the Documents folder.
You can also create your own folder to store your work in. To do this, click on the button new folder located on top.
You will see a new yellow folder with a blue highlight appear in the dialog box. In the blue highlighted area, type the name of the folder, for example My projects. Then confirm this action by pressing the enter key. The folder will be renamed.
If you make a mistake, click on the folder again. Click again and you will see the same blue highlight. Or press the right mouse button and select from the menu that appears. Rename.
After creating a folder, double click on it to go inside. Pay attention to the top of the dialog box.
Our new folder has appeared to the right of the Documents folder, which means that it is inside it, just like the Documents folder is inside the Library folder. Thus, we have created a folder located inside the documents folder.
Now we need to come up with a name for our document that we are saving. If you look at the bottom of the dialog box Save as, you will see 2 fields. One is called File name, second File type. The Filename field is where you enter the file name. In the File type field, you choose what type your file will be.
Microsof Word documents starting in 2007 end with letters DOCX. In earlier versions they ended with letters Doc. If you want to send a document to someone who has Microsoft Word 2007 ending with docx, then your recipient will not be able to open the received file. This is because previous versions don't know how to handle the new format.
The converse statement is not true. That is, if the owner of Microsoft Word 2007 sends a file ending with the letters Doc to you, then you can open it both in 2007 and in Microsoft Word 2010.
Microsoft Word allows you to save documents in a wide range of formats. Click anywhere on the file type field and you will see the entire list of possible formats.
This image shows that our document belongs to Word 97 - 2003, since the file extension consists of three letters - Doc. The first document in the layout, however, has the extension DOCX, the format we want. Be careful when choosing a format, make sure once again that the choice is correct.
Now pay attention to the filename field. If you click on Save without changing the file name, it will be given a name Doc1. Get a file doc1.docx. This is not a very clear name for the document, so let's change it to something else. To change the filename, simply click inside the Filename field. Delete the previous entry and enter a new name. For example, "My first document".
Your dialog box should look like the image below. If so, click the button Save.
Now our document is saved on the hard drive. To make sure the document is indeed saved, click again on the round Office button at the top of the screen (or File for Word 2010). Select Save as. And in the dialog that appears, you will see the name of your file.
Click the Cancel button to dismiss the Save As dialog box.
You can continue working on the saved document. But if you make changes to your work or add some lines, then do not forget to save the modified document. You do not need to repeat all of the above again. Simply click on the Office or File and Save button or click on the round icon shown below. This will save the changes to your document.
Word 2007
Word 2010
There is another way to save changes to a document. Holding down a key CTRL on the keyboard, press the letter at the same time S. Don't forget to save changes to the file regularly as you work on it. So, in case of an unforeseen situation, for example, a power outage or a computer breakdown, your work will not be in vain, and you will not have to start all over again.
Traveling through the vast expanses of the Internet, we find a lot of useful information. Sometimes you want to save an instruction or a recipe on your computer so that you can print it on paper. Many novice users are wondering: " How to save a page from the Internet to a computer?"
Saving text information from the site
Consider one of the ways to save text information from any site to your computer.
The easiest option:
- select the desired piece of text;
- copy it;
- paste into a text editor (for example, or );
- save the text document.
Let's consider each item in more detail.
1. Select the desired piece of text
The selection is carried out with the mouse, as follows: we place the mouse pointer at the beginning of the selected fragment. Press the left mouse button and hold it down to move the cursor over the text. The text will start to highlight. Release the left mouse button after selecting the desired area. If the selection fails, repeat it again.
2. Copy selection
To copy, you need to right-click on the selected fragment to call the context menu. Now from this menu, left-click on the command Copy. You will not notice anything on the screen, but the selected text and pictures will be copied to your computer's memory (clipboard).
3. Paste into a text editor.
To paste into a text editor, you must first run it. The Windows system has , which we will use to save a text document. Launch it from the menu Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> WordPad. After launch, a blank white sheet will appear, on which we will paste the copied text. To do this, point the mouse cursor at the insertion point and right-click. In the context menu, select the item Insert and left click.
All text will be inserted, if this did not happen, then you did the second step incorrectly.
4. Save the text document
After all the necessary text has been copied, it must be saved on your computer. To do this, the menu File choose a team Save. Now we need to specify the name of our document and the place to save it.
The easy way
To save a page from the Internet to a computer and view it offline, modern browsers have a special function. Right-click on the page and select the command from the context menu Save as..
Thus, the page and the folder (with the same name) with graphic elements (pictures from the page) will be saved in the specified folder.
How to save text from a secure site?
On the network you can find sites with copy protection of information and the above method does not work. What to do in this case? If you need only text information, then save the page as a test file with the extension TXT. And then we look at it with notepad. Or rather, let's do it. In the browser menu File choose a team Save as
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If you need to convert a document from a Microsoft Word text editor to a JPG file, you can use several methods. All of them are available and will not cause you any difficulties. Before translating a text document into a graphic document, you need to understand in what cases this can come in handy.
In situations where you need to insert a picture with written text into another document, you will definitely need to translate the text into an image. Also, if you do not want the author's text to be copied from your site, then you can safely add a picture with a previously written article to it using Microsoft Word. You can also set the image as desktop wallpaper so that your notes or reminders are always in sight.
Built-in scissors program
Starting with the version of Windows Vista and Windows 7, a program is built into the operating system that is very necessary for users and is called "Scissors".
Thanks to this utility, you can take a screenshot without using third-party services, special applications, and there is no longer a need to move objects to the clipboard to paste them and edit them in other applications. Also, "Scissors" can fix a separate part of the screen.
Thus, the text document was saved as an image, but this is only one of the possible conversion methods.
How to take a screenshot in Windows XP and previous versions
This option, first of all, is used by people who prefer earlier versions of Windows, where the Scissors program is not provided. But this method can be suitable for any user.
Now you know another way to capture text and convert it into an image.
Microsoft Office software features
Many different programs are included in the full-featured Office package. These include not only well-known editors, spreadsheets and applications for creating computer presentations, but also OneNote notes. Specifically, the last tool will be useful when translating text into an image.
Some last important details
Do not forget that converting text into a picture, the quality of the written, with a high probability, will be changed for the worse. This happens because all the described methods translate vector text into an image that is a grid of pixels. Basically, this leads to the fact that the text on the image is blurry and unreadable.
A few simple notes will help you avoid such problems and make it easier to work in this direction.
- The first step in all methods is to change the scale. Before this action, make the font as large as possible. This tip is especially relevant when you have a list in your text.
- If after saving the file through Paint the page is not visible, then simply make the scale at which the document is displayed smaller.
Now you know about the easiest-to-use methods for changing a Word document into a JPG file. With the described options, you can convert without resorting to additional utilities.
