Why did my Acrobat 9 stop being able to create PDFs from files?

Howdy folks- my first foray here.
I have a copy of acrobat pro 9 which I installed and used uneventfully for the last few years (windows 7). I hadn't used it in the last few months.
Yesterday when I tried to create a new PDF from file (word doc, per usual) it gave me an error after 'opening the program the file was created in'. then it said PDFmaker or something like that wasnt working, did i want to run in repair mode?
I said yes, waited about a half hour for it to do its repair thing, and it still didnt work. restarted twice. tried repairing again and restarting. same errors. then i uninstalled and reinstalled acrobat 9, and it still gives the same error, asking me to run in repair mode.
i really need to be able to convert doc to PDF and there is no way i can afford a new copy. does anyone have any idea of how i can make this work again?
thanks,
anthony

Sounds like you upgraded (or maybe just updated) your Office. If you updated to OFFICE 2010, then you will have to open the file in WORD and print to the Adobe PDF printer. PDF Maker for AA 9 is not compatible with OFFICE 2010.
If you are talking about OFFICE 2007 or earlier, and OFFICE update may have disabled the PDF Maker macro. In that case, you have to open WORD and go to the oddins option and activate the PDF Maker option. It might be possible to get the feature back by opening Acrobat and using Help>Repair to repair your installation.

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