Conversion from Word to PDF is unreadable to others

I have had this problem a couple of times:
I save a word 2007 document as a 97-2003 doc and then convert to pdf using the print command.
When I email this to others, sometimes the words are "jibberish" as one person told me and sometimes the page looks cut off as another person has told me.
I do not see any of these issues when I preview the documents or open the documents.
These have been just text documents and some documents may have basic jpg images.
Went to the Microsoft Word Forum and it was suggested that I go to this forum for assistance.
The version of Acrobat is Professional 8.0.
Attached is the last document that I emailed to someone and they could not read it.
Can anyone help?

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:21:35AM -0600, JMcGracie uttered:
I have Outlook 2007. I found "attachment options" in the delivery options.
t a reply to the thread message, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2109098#2109098
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No I'd use zip rather than mess with MIME settings.
Please note: I read this Forums through e-mail. If you respond to me; please
quote, otherwise I have no idea whom your response is addressed to or the
context. This is all thanks to how this forum doesn't work properly, yet.
Regards,
S.D.A. (Stephen)

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I am using MS Word 2003 and trying to convert a page to PDF format, but the image on the page is shrunk - not what it appears in the WORD document. Is there a setting that I need to apply to get a "What you see is what you get"?
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 08:21:35AM -0600, JMcGracie uttered:
I have Outlook 2007. I found "attachment options" in the delivery options.
t a reply to the thread message, either reply to this email or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2109098#2109098
end
No I'd use zip rather than mess with MIME settings.
Please note: I read this Forums through e-mail. If you respond to me; please
quote, otherwise I have no idea whom your response is addressed to or the
context. This is all thanks to how this forum doesn't work properly, yet.
Regards,
S.D.A. (Stephen)

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