The company has been doing some Webinars, with materials distributed in a PDF format. I got tasked the other day with developing the materials for an upcoming session - but I didn't really have a way to create PDF output, just Microsoft Word. "Just", I say, until I googled some phrase like "Microsoft Word PDF".

Ain't technology grand - the first entry that came up was this link to the Microsoft download center, where there's a download for an Office 2007 add-in which allows eight different office programs to save files to the PDF format. It also lets you send these PDF files as email attachments in at least some of the programs.

The add-in file itself is pretty small, less than a megabyte. Installation was quick and painless. More important: it worked as advertised the first time, and every time I have used it since. All you need to do is create your file, then "Save As...", which displays the following dialog. Select the obvious choice (PDF or XPS), and you're done! It's quick... it's free... it works... sweet!!