Won't convert a Microsoft doc.

When I try to open a Microsoft Doc so I can convert it to PDF I get this message"
"Because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has meen damaged (for example it was sent as an e-mail attachment & wasn't corectly decoded):
The doc was not sent as an e-mail attachment.
I bought this thing so I could quickly and easily convert a microsoft word doc to pdf format. HELP! Please!

Adobe Reader is a free product that is unable to produce PDF files from any kind of source file.
If you bought Adobe Reader, you were scammed. If in fact you are talking about Adobe Acrobat, then you're posting in the wrong forum.
Post in one of the Acrobat forums (for example http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/creating__editing_%26_exporting_pdfs), but provide more information, like your OS, exact version of Office (I highly doubt it's 3, since that was released in the early 90's) and Acrobat. Also be aware that you can't just open a Word file in Acrobat, you have to convert it first to a PDF, either from within Word or from Acrobat itself.

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