I'd like to save a 2-page Word doc as a one file PDF. Recently my computer is converting it into 2 separate PDF files. It never used to do this before. How do I fix this?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
How are you converting it to PDF?
charlie
I am going to File> Print> Save as PDF.
It used to save the document into one file, but now saving as two separate files. Trying to convert my resume which I'd like as one PDF. Do you have any ideas?
That's weird you get 2 files. The joy of Word, I guess.
I don't have Word, so I am not too helpful here. Two things I can think of:
(1) Doesn't Word have a built in save as PDF, or export to PDF option? If so, what happens with that?
(2) A workaround would be to open the two PDFs in Preview and merge the files there.
See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4075
charlie
I do this all the time from Office 2008 and Mac OS 10.6.7 on an older MBP:
It's built into the system. I do not have Adobe Acrobat. Creative Suite, or any other third-party PDF-generating software installed and can make PDFs from both Word and Excel this way (haven't tried it from powerPoint).
Hi Allan:
Yes, I have tried to save as a .docx and then saved as PDF in the built-in system. It is still saving as two separate documents. Resume and resume2. Very strange!!!
Charlie:
Also, I have tried to merge both PDFs into one, per the support link above but it will not let me. Still two separate documents.
HELP! It never did this before. I don't understand!
Does the issue of Word generating two separate PDF documents happen with ALL Word documents? It appears, from your original notes, that the issue is occurring only with this document. It used to be with Excel, due to the way it sends documents to the printer, that every "sheet" would generate a new PDF document, but Word didn't have this problem. If you find that it's only this document that is causing the issue, copy it's contents into a new document and then create the PDF again.
To merge two PDF documents into one, make sure, in Preview, that the Sidebar is visible. It is using the Sidebar that it's possible to drag one page to another PDF document. Open Preview, go to Help, and search for "copy pages from one PDF document to another."
Hope this helps!
Hi- I tried other Word documents and it seemed to work fine. So it must have been something to do with the resume I was working on. It's possible it's because I inserted a table. I removed it but still seems to be corrupt. Either way, I'm working off another document now. Thanks!
Regarding merging documents on Preview, looks like they can be merged but not saved as one complete document. They will always exist as two.
Thank you all!
Best.
Converting Word document to PDF
