Automator saves output in new folder

Hi everyone.
I created an automator workflow to convert word docs to PDFs.
The workflow consists of two actions;
1) Get Selected Items
2) Convert Word documents to PDF format.
It does the job but the output PDF file is placed in a new folder created in the folder of the source Word file. Instead, I'd like to simply have a PDF beside the Word. No new folders.
I did a lot of search to have an action to specify something like "Put the output in the same folder" among the actions in the Automator. No luck.
Can anyone give me a hand to do this without complicating it with Apple scripts?

Never mind people.
I found the excellent solution. (Link below)
http://www.macsparky.com/blog/2008/3/19/keyboard-shortcut-for-save-as-pdf-in-os- x.html

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