Can't Get Acrobat Tab to Display in Word

Question

Hi - I hope someone can help.  I followed all of the steps here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/pdfmaker-unavailable-office-2007-off ice.html
I especially followed the Repair Acrobat re-install, but nothing seems to work.  I'm trying to get hired to do 508 Compliance and the employer is trying to test my ability, but I can't even begin the testing on my computer (Windows 7 Alienware) because part of the procedure is to have the PDF Maker tab in Word.
It appears that the Maker is there.  See image below:
But after following the various steps at the URL above, nothing seems to work.  Here's a snapshot of my Word.  No PDF tab there:
Please help me on this.  i'm trying to bid on a 508 job and need to get this to work so I can prove to the employer I can do the work.
Thanks.

Answer 1

"Best Practice" would be to have an install of Acrobat Pro version and MS Office version that result in having a PDFMaker that is compatible with the Office version you are using.
Alternative is to use the MS Office Save As PDF - XPS method to obtain a tagged PDF which you then post-process into ISO 14289-1 compliance using Acrobat Pro.
-A big plus of using Acrobat XI Pro is that it supports creation and checking PDFs that meet the PDF/UA ISO standard (if ISO  compliant a PDF achieves WCAG
Do note that to be Section 508 compliant you need an ISO 14289-1 PDF. This ISO standard is the PDF/UA (Unversial Accessible) standard. 2.0).
Note that older reference information from dot GOV and dot EDU sources may not reflect the ISO standard and should be avoided.
Some essential references for successful processing of "accessible" PDF:
--| ISO 32000-1, PDF ISO standard (section 14.8 of particular importance)
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/PDF32000_200 8.pdf
--| ISO 14289-1, PDF/UA-1 - ISO standard for Accessible PDF.
http://webstore.ansi.org/FindStandards.aspx?SearchString=ISO+14289-1&SearchOption=0&PageNu m=0&SearchTermsArray=null%7cISO+14289-1%7cnull 
--| Technical refences at AIIM
http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/Standards/Committees/PDFUA 
----| PDF/UA-1 Technical Implementation Guide: Understanding ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1) 
----| PDF/UA-1 Technical Implementation Guide: Understanding ISO 32000-1 (PDF 1.7) (under development)
----| Achieving WCAG 2.0 with PDF/UA
--| Useful "tools"
----|  The Matterhorn Protocol from the PDF Association
http://www.pdfa.org/2013/08/the-matterhorn-protocol-1-0/ 
----| pdfGoHTML from callas software.
Olaf's delivered a very useful tool wilth this free software.
http://www.callassoftware.com/callas/doku.php/en:news:press:20121119 
----| PDF Accessibiilty Checker (PAC)
http://www.access-for-all.ch/en/pdf-lab/pdf-accessibility-checker-pac.html
----| axesPDF for Word
http://www.axespdf.com/ 
----|  Using Acrobat Pro's Accessibility Checker
For Acrobat 9:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/accessibility/products/acrobat/pdfs/A9-using-acc ess-checker.pdf 
For Acrobat X:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/accessibility/products/acrobat/pdfs/acrobat-x-ac cessibility-checker.pdf 
For Acrobat XI:
http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html 
Be well...