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If you've authored your material in Word, you can use any save function to move a .doc(x) to a PDF and carry over many accessible properties of that file. Before you do this, make sure you've identified the Title in Properties. We use the Office 2019 Suite and Microsoft Office 365 here at Swarthmore, and you can:

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If you've authored your material in Word, you can use any save function to move a .doc(x) to a PDF and carry over many accessible properties of that file. Before you do this, make sure you've identified the Language the file is in. We use the Office 2019 Suite and Microsoft Office 365 here at Swarthmore, and you can:

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  • Use Adobe’s Word plugin to produce the PDF.

  • Choose save as PDF from the File menu.

  • Select Export and Create Adobe PDF from the File menu.

  • Choose Save As from the File menu; select PDF from the drop down; and save.

It will not be the most accessible to move .doc(x) files to PDF. There are a number of steps even still that require going into the PDF to edit metadata and tags, for instance.

See also:

Common Pitfalls

  • Thinking that the filename is the title. 

  • Printing to PDF instead of saving as a PDF.

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