Am I imagining things? Spotlight on Word docs...

If I search for files modified in the last 7 days and select Kind is Document, it seems that Word 2008 .docs do not appear! .docx ones do, though!
Yet, if I select Extension is doc instead, then I get the Word .doc files.
Is there some trick here?

Anyone?

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How do I save formatting from Word docs to pages?

Hi
Often when I open a word document in Pages I get a document warning pop up box. Often I find that basic things from the Word doc have been changed. For example, things that were in Bold text in the Word doc are no longer in Bold in the Pages file. How do I prevent this from happening as the document moves back and forth between myself ( a Pages user) and a clien (who has Word)?

Hello
As far as I know, Word create faux-style when a bold or an italic version of a font isn't available.
In such case, bold or italic will be dropped in Pages.
From my point of view it's a good choice but it may hurt some users.
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Printer suddenty wont print Excel or Quickbooks but will print Word docs

Help!
My HP 6500 just decided to stop printing Excel, Quickbooks and Efax but WILL print Word documents and other files. When I hit "okay" ont he print menu the printer head goes back and forth but no ink comes out. Again, the weird thing is that Word docs are fine and print out.
I have downloaded the driver software twice and turned printer on and off and unplugged it from back of machine.
Help

Hi @Salsify,
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I see that your HP Deskjet 3050a will print an internet page but not any documents on Windows 7. I am sorry to hear this but happy to help!
How is the printer connected? Wireless or USB?
Are you able to make standalone copies with the printer? Copy Text or Mixed Documents.
In the meantime, I would recommend to try our HP Print and Scan Doctor, and let me know what happens!
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Why is does my apple run SLOW.you go to open a program and the circle thing just spins for a delayed period of time. You change from typing in a word doc and go to say email or internet and it takes several minutes to allow you open anything up. Like it

Why is does my apple run SLOW.you go to open a program and the circle thing just spins for a delayed period of time. You change from typing in a word doc and go to say email or internet and it takes several minutes to allow you open anything up. Like it is frozen. I have tried rebooting the computer and it works for a few minutes then gets stuck.

Which model iMac do you have?
How large is your HD and how much space do you have left?
Check out the following & do the necessary:
User Tip: Why is my computer slow?
What to do when your computer is too slow
Speeding up your Mac
OS X (10.6.6)
Use Software Update or the OS 10.6.8 combo update to update your OS. Also, update everything SU has to offer for your computer. When done, repair permissions and restart your computer.

Is there anyway to publish each slide build in Captivate 5.5 to a word doc with slide notes?

I am looking for a way to print out my slides in a word document so that my copy editor can not only read my slide notes, but also view what is on my slide making sure there are not any errors. When I build my slides, I stack images up with things fading in and out enabling me to record audio for only one slide as opposed to each build. However when I publish to the handouts, my copy editor receives a slide with a lot of things built up on it and she can not see everthing that is on the slide (only what's on top). Does anyone have any advice or information they can give me relating to publising to handouts or storyboarding so that each slide build is seen?
Thank you in advance! I appreciate any help on this!

Captivate's handouts work in much the same way as PPT handouts. If you had a lot of objects and animation on a single PPT slide it wouldn't look much different to a Captivate slide.
One good thing about Captivate though is that if you hide objects on the timeline for a given slide, the way that slide looks in Edit mode is pretty much what it will look like in the Handout doc graphic. With judicious hiding of extraneous objects your slide printout won't look too bad. The reviewers should at this stage mostly be just looking at the voiceover script anyway. The NEXT stage of the review cycle would be to check the animation and syncing with the approved voiceover.
There's no way you can give your reviewer a Word doc straight out of Captivate that will show how you've animated the objects (fade ins and fade outs or effects etc). If it's essential tey see this in action then consider sending them a PDF output from the project with TTS speech from the voiceover script and objects roughly synced to the TTS. I don't see any point wasting too much time on getting everything synced perfectly at this stage because reviewers are just as likely to change a lot of the voiceover and render a lot of work useless. But some reviewers have no imagination and can't get an idea of how the elearning will turn out until they see it almost finished. Managers are the most likely to be like this. And the higher up in management they are, the less imagination they have.

Word Docs not considered a "Kind" is "Documents"

When using the finders spotlight I can add a filter to search for "Kind" is "Document" why doesn't Word doc files show up but can only be found if I filter on "Other". Is there a way to change this so that Word Docs are considered Kind=Documents?

I almost NEVER use Word, but I do have Office 2004 for Mac (courtesy of my brother who works for M$ and gave me a copy), and I do have one document from last summer, and in mdls it shows
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"com.microsoft.word.doc",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.composite-content",
"public.content"
I also have a buncha doc files emailed to me from Windows using friends and relatives, and they show exactly the same thing, Finder shows them in the Kind column as "Microsoft Word Documents"--I also have a big batch of older Word files, whose Kind in Finder is shown as "Word 97 Format (doc)" and whose TypeTree is identical to the newer Word files. The only MS cruft that doesn't show up is thingies from Entourage.
I sure don't remember installing anything different--the only importer I have is
/Library/Spotlight/Microsoft Office.mdimporter
which is version 12.0.2 from 9/27/07. I think that was a default install by Apple, since all the importers date from about the same time, except the iWeb one, which was created a few months earlier than the others.
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When converting word doc to pdf, my images with text only show the background color of the text box.

I have a word doc that I am trying to conver to pdf. I have jpegs with text boxes on top of them on one page. It looks great on the screen but after I convert to pdf, the text boxes only have half the text, the first half of the text box is just white - the background color. If I take the background color out of the text box, the text converts over fine but I need the background color.
I have tried many things here on the print settings, standard, high quality print, unchecking the compression on the images. Any help?

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Preserving HTML links when converting Word docs

I created a document in MS Word for Mac 2011 (ver 14.5.2)
When I used Adobe Pro 11 to convert the document into pdf format, all the HTML links are lost.
I have tried converting from MS Word, opening the word version with Adobe Pro, printing from MS Word to pdf. Nothing works. Even opened the MS Word document using Apple's Pages software, re-formatted and then converted to pdf. Still no live links.
Best work around so far is to convert and then use the edit feature in Adobe Pro to re-insert the HTML links as invisible rectangles on top of the still-blue-and- underlined text. So to the user it looks like the html links are still live, but what a pain for editor.
I have seen this issue raised in other posts, but none of the answers seem to work. And the work around described above is clearly less than ideal.
Very curious, as reading other posts, the issue apparently does not arise when the word doc converted from a Wintel computer. But I can't imagine Adobe writes software one way for Intel and another for Mac.

Imagine it. this has been 15 year fued between Microsoft and Adobe. Adobe Claims that Mac office doesn't hav ethe proper hooks for URLs. Microsoft says the fault is with adobe.
Since a Word Created file will work when opened in the windows version and saved as a PDF, the links work just fine. Just opening and not saving, but converted to Pdf does nothing to the actual Word File.
They had it fixed last year in Acrobat X if your dropped the file on to Acroabt directly. But broke it again with the upgrade to XI.
IF you have iWork and Open the word file in Pages then exported as a Word.docx file then create The PDF the links will become active. Also if you Open in OpenOffice and export as docx file the resulting PDF when open in Word and PDF is Created the links will become active.
If you have neither you will have to open the PDF and add the links. Note the Links will be hot (active) but the links will not turn Blue and be Underlined
Mac Office2011 is a Conversion of Office2010/2007 code. So there should be no pproblem.
Also Don't use the Save As . . . PDF Method. Instead go to Print Menu click on PDF wait for context menu > the choos Adobe Quality PDF or Adobe PDF (uses Adobe's PDF engine).
wait for next screen that shows qualtity leave as sent unles you need specific job options. click okay then next screen File name. Rename as necessary the browser to desired to location then click save. Or you can drop the saved Word document (with Word quit.) on to Acrobat and after a minute or so the PDF will be created. (Using this method in AcrobatX would actully show URL s or Mailtos as active - They broke this in Acrobat XI PDF still can be created but hot links no longer work).
Well it seems it does work on occasion see: http://www.screencast.com/t/cib2kcYG

I am looking for an application that would allow me to open a word doc, and take notes in the .doc using a stylus pen. I'd then like to convert those notes to text, and then be able to copy / paste those notes into an email. Does this app exist?

I am looking for an application that would allow me to open a word doc, and take notes in the .doc using a stylus pen. I'd then like to convert those notes to text, and then be able to copy / paste those notes into an email. Does this app exist? It seems like we were doing these same types of things with Palm Pilots years ago, one would think this would work with iPads?

I don't believe it will open a Word document, but Writepad allows for handwritten conversion of notes to text and then to email. Might help you some of the way...

Unique issue with PDF to WORD .doc conversion with Acrobat Pro - any ideas?

I have been unable to solve the following issue when converting (save as...) PDF documents to Microsoft Word .doc using numerous methods. This could either be an issue that would be fixed in Acrobat Pro itself, or in MS Word - posting to the Adobe forums first.
PREFACE: I am attempting to use the converted .doc file with translation applications/software. Google Translator Toolkit is what I use the most, but ALL other translators are having this very same issue with the .doc file. --The source PDFs are product information from drug manufacturers in various countries that I need to have translated to English. I do not have access to their source documents, as they do not provide their own source docs for obvious reasons.
ALSO: I cannot use Google Translator toolkit to translate from PDFs directly - if you do that, it will attempt to translate a PDF and then export in an .html file, but it does not get the exact spacing of the sentences correctly, which leads to errors in translating - key things such as "can take with alcohol" and "do not take with alcohol". So that's out!
I am not having any problems with the resultant .doc file in MS Word itself. It looks right, the spacing matches the original PDF source perfectly, prints correctly, etc... Reference here on a product info sheet from Austria in German:
The problem: This is a screenshot from Google Translator Toolkit - the right side of the image - the spacing in the lettering from the .doc file I am uploading is not being read correctly, resulting in untranslated gibberish. (Note: this isn't a problem with the translation applications or software -- all are having this issue with .doc files converted from .pdf - this issue isn't present with any old .doc file that wasn't converted from a .pdf) -- It's definitely got something to do with some kind of embedded data in the .doc file that I cannot isolate!!)
My settings in Adobe Pro (convert from PDF to .doc):
Page layout: Flowing Text (this prevents the resultant .doc from having all of those text boxes, which also don't then work in translators)
Include comments: True
Include images: True
Run OCR if needed: True
Notes:
-I have run OCR text recognition on the source PDF files in it's specific language.
-I have edited the accessibilty of the PDF and have run the tag recognition and quick checks (to see if they solved the issue, which it did not - tagged or untagged, same problems!)
-I have exported the .doc BACK to PDF using MS Word's function, which results in a great looking tagged PDF. THEN I re-saved this new PDF back as a .doc - same issue.
-I have tried saving the PDF in all of the other formats that the translators accept. All have different issues. The only one that works consistently is saving to a .txt (plain)... The best is a .doc to .doc conversion, with all the original spacing. (I am not spending hours reformatting a .txt translation in word)...
I can't seem to find where this spacing data is in the .doc file!!!! (Changing the fonts, sizes, margins -- doesnt fix this either). I have tried so many methods...
Any thoughts on other things to try in Adobe Pro (or Word)?
EDIT: Here's an additional tidbit of info that may be the key to this... There's some kind of coding that is in the .doc that Adobe Pro converted from the source PDF that doesnt display in Word, but that is being seen by the translation programs....... I have no idea what these are, but I want to remove them!
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I would suggest you look at the fonts that are being used. It may be a font issue that is not properly being read by the translation program.

Convert pdf to word doc-but don't have the export option.

I want to convert a pdf (that I got from an email) into a Word doc so I can edit it the way I want to. However, for some reason now I don't have the 'Export' option in my File drop down list.
Funny thing is, I've converted the document once already and have entirely forgotten how I did it obviously!
I've made so many changes in my first conversion I want to start over.
why don't I have the 'Export' option? Or ... when I do a 'save as' and chose 'word doc' it only does a copy - paste type save - where I can't make any changes. It's like it puts it into a text box or something.
I have MSWord 2010.

Hi Kelly,
MsDennis1465 wrote:
When I do the steps below, the Word doc that is saved is like a photo. I am unable to work with the document. Why does it do that? I have converted pdf’s before without that happening but I think I did it on a free 30-day trial of X Pro.
This usually happens when you're dealing with a very poor quality scanned document that doesn't have enough data for the Acrobat OCR engine to actually process.
As for Acrobat 6.0 Pro, I don't believe the Save as Word function was introduced until version 8.0, but it's been a few years and the memory of Acrobat 6 has faded a bit.
-David

PDF indexing of Word.doc Keywords: kind of disappointing

If we could embed document properties like Keywords in Word, and then convert Word.docs to PDFs , and then index the PDFs using Acrobat Pro, theoretically it would allow for lightning-fast keyword search and review, through a zillion PDFs.
Except, there are unexpected glitches that are either undocumented... or, if the documentation exists, it's either hard to find or too scantily worded.
Here's a few things I've observed, using Windows XP, Office 2007 and Acrobat 8 Pro:
1. Word document properties only transfer over to PDF if you use the Acrobat tab in Word's ribbon to generate the PDF via PDFMaker, which apparently invokes some 'more robust' implementation of Distiller, than occurs if you simply use the print dialog to print to PDF. THIS IS PROBABLY A BIG SOURCE OF USER CONFUSION THAT DISCOURAGES MANY USERS FROM GOING ANY FURTHER WITH EXPERIMENTING WITH PDF INDEXING OF WORD DOCUMENT PROPERTIES. IT CAN LEAD YOU TO CONCLUDE THAT NONE OF THE WORD DOCUMENT PROPERTIES EXCEPT FOR TITLE, CAN SURVIVE A PDF CONVERSION.
2. When you invoke PDFMaker, when the "Save Adobe PDF File As" dialog appears, you must click on the button at the bottom that is labeled "Adobe PDF conversion Options' and verify that the "Convert document information" check box is checked. (This may be able to be set as a permanent user preference somewhere, but I'm not quite sure where.)
3. The Properties fields in Word that will come over, include Title, Author, Subject, and Keywords. (The Comments field is ignored, as far as I can tell.)
4. You can now index the PDFs, and these Properties fields will also be indexed.....well, Sort Of.
5. "Sort Of", because if you then search for any of the text in your Properties fields, (like for example you search for a word or phrase that you've embedded in their Keywords fields), the advanced search result won't be displayed quite the way 'found hits' normally display in a PDF index search results screen. You may expect to see the contents of those Keywords fields, show up in the search results in a long list of 'found' file icons with ALL (or a generous selection) of their surrounding Keywords also displayed, and with the specified found keyword highlighted in BOLD.
But, that's not what happens. What you really get is an icon showing the contents of the Title field (which you didn't search for.) It basically means that Acrobat has found a document with something you searched for, in it....but Acrobat is not going to show it to you as easily as you are accustomed to seeing it. You only have two choices: (1) either hover your mouse over each found file's Title icon, one by one, until its screentip-type popup window appears, showing you all the contents of all four of that document's Properties fields; or (2) click on the icon, display the PDF, go to File Properties, and observe that file's properties dialog box.
This is disappointing: the fast, easy, contextual lookup advantages you've enjoyed with regular PDF index searches appear to be unavailable when it comes to viewing search results on indexed document properties. I can understand the logic; (why show other keywords surrounding the searched-for keyword? If they're not in a sentence, there's really no contextual relationship, and therefore no reason to show them.)
However, what if users wanted to store logically related keywords in a deliberate organized pattern..ie,
Texas, Car, 1999, Ford, Mustang, Green
Texas, Car, 2000, Ford, Mustang, White
Texas, Car, 2000, Ford, Mustang, Yellow
Texas, Car, 2000, Chevrolet, Corvette, Blue
Ohio, Car, 2006, Honda, Civic, Silver
...etc.
In this context, all keywords are logically related; it could be a big advantage to be able to use PDF Index search to instantly find and view a list of all 5,328 White 2000 Ford Mustangs located in Texas....then pop up their insurance.doc PDFs for further details.
Allowing the user to set a preference to 'show all stored propery values in the search results' instead of an arbitrary length string of surrounding values, could also be very helpful, so that the full information depicted in the above example could actually be fully displayed, not arbitrarily truncated.
I guess the only workaround is to forget Word's Document Properties, and just embed keywords within the document itself, such as maybe at the end of the document, maybe colored white (so they can't be easily seen). Formatting them as hidden text doesn't work; Acrobat ignores hidden text when you convert from Word to PDF.

I seem to get hard returns in all cases. That is why I had the short answer. I do not remember if saving as a DOC got rid of the hard returns. Of course the simplest way to find out is to try it. I went to another machine and the Save As to a DOC file did not put in the hard returns (cut and paste did). I should note that the PDF was produced from a totally different word processor and was not a WORD native document. That would suggest it is not dependent on the tags that can be included by WORD and PDF Maker.

Question re Create PDF from Word doc

Hi
I am trying to create a pdf from a Word document (Word 2007, Acrobat 8 Professional), and am having lots of trouble with images,fonts and document overhead. With the fonts, i generate the PDF by saying Create Pdf from the plugin in Word. I specify in the Preferences that fonts are not to be embedded. I then open the PDF and access PDF Optimiser -> Audit Space Usage, and it says that fonts take up like 20% of the document, however there are only like 10 lines of text in Arial (9pt), and 6 titles also in Arial (Bold). I dont understand why Font is taking up so much space considering that i have elected not to embed fonts (if i go to the Fonts section in the Optimiser, it shows both embedded and unembedded panes blank).
With the images, i have 2 jpegs in the footer, that are compressed (JPEG -> Low). The other thing i am struggling with is the headers and footers, if i generate the PDF from the Word doc with Headers/Footers, then images take up over 15% of the document. Not sure if there is a way to add headers and footers within minimum impact of filesize? I have tried checking everything in the 3 categories of Dicard Objects, Discard User data and Clean Up. but the Document Overhead remains at 35%.
What else can i do to get these filesizes reduced?I have been researching this for days and have not come across anything that has helped.I have tried to PDF print, i have changed the font to like Courier, ensured no thumbnails or bookmarks, ensured JPEGs are not embedded in the doc, tried Save As, Save As under a different filename - basically anthing you can find on the net i have found and tried, but still cant fix this!!!! please, if anyone knows acrobate 8 better than me / or knows what the problem is, please advise????
Thanks very much.

The colors and size in a graphic needs to be done in a graphics editor. What type of editor would depend on the use of vector graphics versus bitmap. Sometimes vector graphics are larger than bitmaps if you are using a lot of lines that would display better as just a splotch of color. Such are the variations between vector and bitmap graphics, but important if you are looking for size reduction. For a bitmap, I would do the sizing and color depth with IrfanView, but you should be able to do that with PhotoShop if you have it. Vector graphics can be adjusted in Illustrator. The size of vector graphics is not an issue since they are scalable, but the size of a bitmap is important since your are looking at individual pixels and that depends on size. The point is that if you can adjust the color depth and size for the desired pixel resolution, the bitmap is optimized for the conversion to PDF from WORD.
As I mentioned, the smallest file size job options should minimize font storage in the PDF. Checking with the PDF Optimizer does not always give you all of the fonts. I am not sure why. It is better to check the font tab in the document properties to see what has been embedded. There is a preflight macro to embed fonts, you might check to see if there is one to delete fonts (I have not checked on that). Sometimes you can play with the reprint of a PDF, but that is not an option that is generally recommended, particularly if you have any tagging or such. Of course, tagging can really bloat a PDF, but is needed for a variety of reasons such as format for saving back to WORD (not a great workflow), accessability, and related issues. In another topic, there is some discussion of the purposes of tagging and bookmarks. However, the tags and bookmarks take space if that is really an issue for you. The latter are avoided if you use the print to the Adobe PDF printer and do not use PDF Maker in the PDF creation process. Again, there is a trade-off here in terms of size and functionality, particularly accessibility compliance.
Not sure I am helping as I run on, but sort what might be useful for you.

How do I reduce a Word doc file size? (346 MP: 50 pages of text; no pictures)

I have a Macbook Air (circa 2010) using OS X 10.9.2. I have Office 2011 and am having trouble with a Word doc. It's 50 pages of just text (no pictures) but is 346.8 MB. It takes forever to save and Word crashes a lot. I have checked for updates to Word.
The only thing I can think of is that it copied over audio from audio notes. As background, I took text and audio notes in individual word documents for a semester's worth of classes. I then wanted all of the text together so I copied and pasted each class's notes into this document (in print layout, not in notebook layout). As far as I can tell, the audio did not come along to the new file. But I can't think of what else would cause the enormous file size.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've already changed the auto save and copy and paste settings. I also tried File > Reduce File Size, but that didn't help because the doc has no pictures.
Edit: I should also add, I don't want to lose the formatting, which is why I haven't tried just copying and pasting it into a text doc or something. It has headings, subheadings, etc.

Have you considered this ... since you suspect there may be old garbage in the file?
Try creating a brand new document in Word. Then try copying and pasting the old document into the new one. You may choose to do this in sections, or a few pages at a time.

Save word doc as pdf options

Hi!
I'm saving a large word document (over 100 pages) as a PDF, using Word 2007 and Acrobat 9 Pro. Then, I am using Acrobat to do the final-stage accessibility edits.
There are a number of ways to save the file as a PDF, and I'm curious about what the differences are.
1. I can save the word doc using the "Acrobat" ribbon- the button "Create PDF" and also play around with "Preferences" when doing so.
2. I can go to the 'pizza box' and "Save As" and then hit "Adobe PDF."
     (I'm pretty sure this is the same thing as 1)
     When I do 1 or 2, the conversion takes a LONG time and usually freezes my computer. So I've been doing the following:
3. "Save as" and then "PDF or XPS"- the button with the little document wearing a belt around its waist? Funny button.
     Doing this converts my file to a PDF a lot quicker than 1 or 2. From what I can tell, it does a fine job- carries over alt text, tags, etc.
     3a. Also- there's an option when I save this way to make the PDF "ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A)" Does this mean anything?
Questions:
- what is the difference between these saving options? And why is 3 so much faster?!
- which option is best creating accessible PDFs from Word documents (or are they all the same)?
Thanks!

Hi,
For #1 –
This uses Adobe PDFMaker.
If "Enable Accessibility and Reflow with tagged Adobe PDF" is selected you'll create a Tagged output PDF from the Word file. How well-formed it is depends on how diligently built-in headings and styles were used.
For #2 –
'pizza box' > "Save As" > "Adobe PDF" passes the Word file through Adobe Printer to Distiller to PDF.
No Tagged output PDF that way as the file is not being processed by Adobe PDFMaker which provides the tag management.
For #3 –
'pizza box' > "Save As" (mouse hover, no click) > PDF or XPS (click)
In the 'Publish as PDF or XPS' dialog, click on the "Options..." button.
In the Options dialog, select "Document structure tags for accessibilty"
(don't forget to provide the Word file with meta data in its Document Properties and to select "Document Properties" in the Options dialog).
Give your output PDF Bookmarks by selecting the "Create bookmarks using" choice.
Click OK.
Back in the 'Publish as PDF or XPS' dialog, confirm that "Standard (publishing online and printing)" is selected (the default).
If you want to view the PDF upon creation, select "Open file after publishing".
Click the Publish button.
Output PDF will be tagged.
Process has improved since its initial release.
On the whole, I still prefer to use PDFMaker; but, the Office 2007 routine is a viable alternative.
An end-user "win" due to Adobe's work with ISO to create the ISO Standard for PDF.
#1 & #3 process time is a function of what you authored – short-simple, long-complex, adherence to a well-formed template and built-in headings/styles, willy-nilly, etc.
You would have to run a statistically valid sample of the same Word files through each to see which has a run-time you like AND provides a structure tree that requires minimal post-processing.
Although less post-processing may not be a 'good thing' if the few activities you have to do are gnarly.
For #3a –
PDF "ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A)"
The ISO Standard for long term archival grade electronic files (PDF, of course <g>).
Asking the question indicates that you are most likely not in need of providing the content in Word to PDF/A.
Questions
– 'speed' of output that needs more post-processing with Acrobat Pro may not be a good thing.
– which is 'better' for tagged output PDF...
That depends.
I prefer Adobe PDFMaker's output of <Table>, <Note>, its dealings with headings, its ability to appropriately nest elements, etc.
I'd do two or three of the same Word files each way.
Then post-process to assure the PDF structure tree is compliant with the requirements of ISO 32000-1.
If your PDF is ISO 32000-1"good" it is solid for accessibility/Section 508.
For each, walk the tree with 'Highlight' selected.
If checking with AT, use the most recent release. Old stuff (any of it from any software house) is not going to be able to properly "QC" something processed to current standards.
After this, throw the chicken bones to decide.
fwiw, I've found FrameMaker / Acrobat Pro to be a better tool set for tagged output of PDF and requisite post-processing.
Be well...

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