Unable to find Adobe PDF Printer

I am trying to convert a Word document into a PDF by right-clicking on a Word document and telling it to Convert to Adobe PDF. I keep getting the error message "Unable to find "Adobe PDF" printer or "Acrobat Distiller" printer. Do you want to run the installer in repair mode?" I try to run the repair mode and it'll run the repair mode, but nothing changes. Also, I used to have an Adobe tab in my Microsoft Word program but that is gone. All of these problems started when I got a new computer that is running Windows 7. Any idea on how to fix this? Right now I'm having to use PDF Complete, but I'd rather use my Adobe!

No, but you might have to do some work to get AA8 to work on your system. The first step is to update it, currently at 8.3.1 (you have 8.0.0 that may be your issue). AA8 is not certified for use on Win7, but several folks have been successful getting it to run. However, you might run into hickups at times even if it does run. In the meantime, try opening the document in WORD and printing to the Adobe PDF printer. If that works, you at least have a production method.
The next step is to figure out why PDF Maker is not working. For this, open the document in WORD and see if the Adobe menu appears. In WORD 2007 it will likely be the right most menu item named Acrobat (that is on my WORD 2007 system with AA8, though this is a VISTA machine). If that menu does not appear, then the Adobe macro in WORD needs to be enabled.
If the printer is not running, then further work is needed. Let us know what the current status is and then we can go from there.

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