PDF And XPS Formats Available for Microsoft Office 2007

Thanks to a legal disagreement with Adobe, the promised PDF file formatting available from within Microsoft Office didn't happen. But Microsoft did the next best thing. Microsoft has provided a free add-in for Microsoft Office 2007 applications that will allow you to save Office files in PDF and XPS formats. The add-in doesn't work in earlier versions of Office, sorry to say. (But software manufacturers have to give you incentives like these to upgrade to their latest versions.) The only catch on this free download is that Microsoft requires validation of a genuine Microsoft Office edition before the download is allowed.

The free add-in works in these applications only:

• Microsoft Office Access 2007
• Microsoft Office Excel 2007
• Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
• Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
• Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
• Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
• Microsoft Office Visio 2007
• Microsoft Office Word 2007

(Some of these applications allow you to send PDF and XPS E-mail attachments.)

The add-in requires Windows XP SP-2 or Windows 2003 Server, so you can't use it on older operating systems. (Yet another incentive to upgrade your operating system, too, huh?)