Can't covner word files to pdf. have acrbot 8 and win 7.  HELP!

Need help troubleshooting why I can't convert word docs to pdf on new system.  Had MS XP and now Win 7.  Adobe Acrobat 8 is common program for conversion.  HELP!

Acrobat uses Word to do the conversion. So the version of Word must be compatible with the version of Acrobat. Saving as an older DOC does not help that.
You can still print from Word to Adobe PDF, but not use PDFMaker if Acrobat and Office are not compatible. We can't say whether they should be because you haven't told us the version of Word, but see this page for a list of compatible versions Compatible web browsers and PDFMaker applications

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