The MSWord at my office has an Adobe button I can click on to easily convert .doc documents to .pdf, which we have to do in my industry all the time to eliminate metadata from documents before circulating them.

I'd like to be able to do the same from my home computer, but my MSWord at home does not seem to have that function. Do I have to buy new software or is there some other way?

thanks.

You will need a PDF writer. It basically acts like a printer but instead of getting a harcopy on paper, it writes the document to a file in PDF format. Most likely at work they paid for one of the Adobe Acrobat products. The free reader program will not create PDF files.

You can buy that or use one of the many free products out there. Here is one that I use called CutePDF Writer. You won't get the button that you are familiar with but it will create a PDF printer to create the documents. You need to download and install the writer and the converter.

http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp#download

Thanks Hawk - works great!