How to re-enable Adobe Acrobat in Word

So every now and then i do something stupid. I was converting a Word document to PDF and right in the middle of the conversion, being the click happy person I am, I click on the “X” and closed Word. This caused Word to crash in the middle of the conversion and when I restarted Word, the PDF menu was no where to be found. I figured maybe a reboot would bring it back but SOL it did not. Clicking around, I found the fix. Clicking on the Office circle icon in Word (the colorful circle in the top left), is “Word Options”. Here you’ll find an option for “Add-Ins”, at the bottom is “manage”, change this to “Disabled Items” and click go. A pop up will come up and you’ll see “Acrobat PDFMaker Office COM Addin”, highlight this and click enable. Close down Word and restart it and the PDF menu item should be there again.

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