Sending documents in PDF rather than .doc format is desireable for many reasons. Up to now, creating a pdf document usually required one to buy Adobe acrobat or some other third party software. It can't be done directly from Microsoft Office.

I just installed the latest release of . Open Office 1.1 It can directly save a document as a pdf - which I think is very cool! For my use, this feature makes Open Office not only free, but functionally better than Word.

That's interesting crescen7 and I saved your link, although Adobe reader is a free download.

Again, thanks for your suggestion.

Yes Adobe "READER" is free. But you can't create .pdf documents with the free reader.

The full Adobe package needed to create .pdf's is a few hundred bucks. There are some cheaper .pdf writers available, and even a couple of free services; but so far, I think this is the only word processing program that can create .pdf files directly.

Hi Cres.:
Many of the Tech. Manuals I use are in PDF format.
I'd love to be able to add my notations.

As soon as I saw your link I went there as quick as I could to download.

Alas, my current computer isn't up to the
min. requirements.

Will keep this in mind though.
Thanks
Mike b. (AKA Byter)

Thanks for the clarification, crescen7! I'm certainly glad that I saved your link!