Best Software to Use?

I need to combine several types of files into one PDF. One is a large excel file that is over 150 pages. Others are word docs. Some are already PDF's.
I have Acrobat 7 and it does not allow me to convert the excel file.
I have tried CUTE PDF writer and the excel file is too large for it (the free version)...
Any suggestions? I think Acrobat 8 Professional is ideal, however they don't make it for Mac

Hi Danielle, I will not usually recommend 3rd party software, not that it's not worthy, I just don't need any. The one thing I must do is mail transcripts and papers around colleges throughout the NE, and I could not get the free version of Adobe to mail multi-page PDF's in the format I wanted. Someone on this forum (maybe Sig) told me to try the one I gave you, works delightfully, no more mailing issues, nor combining PDF issues. The designer of the program I gave you did a good jog, drag and drop PDF"s into a formated paper. I think you will like the way it interfaces with OSx for Word", Pages, all the word processing applications that must be organized and shipped away.
Ray

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