Word to PDF conversion gets stuck at 10%. Acrobat 8 Professional.

I have Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional on Windows 7. I cannot convert Word Docs (office 2003 Professional) to PDFs. The conversion gets stuck at 10%.
What should I do?

Are you saving your MS Word doc as a PDF from within Word?
Try doing that, also some versions of Word had a PDF Maker button.
Once you have the Word file saved as a PDF, you should be able to open it in Acrobat 8.

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