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Word and Excel Files are "not supported" when combining?

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2007-01-25 10:27:17
chagnmj8
Registered: Jan 25 2007
Posts: 4

Hello,
 
I just puchased Acrobat 8 for the Mac specifically to combine multiple files from different programs into one professional document (hopefully with new pagination). I installed the program today and tried this out with a couple of test files. 2 Word files, 1 Excel and 1 PDF. The Word and Excel Files brought up a red messege stating that they were "problem files" and that they could not be combined. Only the PDF worked. I tried out different Word and Excel Files. No dice. Seeing as how this is an advertised function of the software, I can't understand why it won't work.
 
Do any of you have experience with this and possibly know what I am doing wrong?
 
Thanks!
M

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Macintosh
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2007-01-25 21:59:41
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tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
You are not doing anything wrong. The PDF Maker on the Mac is useless and not very good at converting Office files other than MS Word. It's an OS issue Adobe has struggled with Apple for some time.

You're best bet for combining files is to use the Print command in the Office programs and print to PDF using the Adobe PDF printer driver. Take the PDF documents and combine them together with the Combine Files command in Acrobat.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

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