Please note: If you need to quickly convert a Word document into a PDF file then I strongly recomend you try PDF Online as a first port of call.
It will convert Microsoft Word files less than 2MB in size into a PDF file for free and then e-mail you the link to the resulting PDF.
If your Word file is more than 2MB and contains photos/images then try using Word's built in picture compression utility to reduce the file size first - Click here to learn how to do this.
If you need to do more with PDF's then please look at the list of tools below and also take a few minutes to watch the video on the right of this page 
View & Annotate PDF files
Edit & Annotate PDF files
- PDFVue
An online PDF editor that lets you upload a PDF, make changes to it and then download the result as a new PDF.
- PDFHammer
This site lets you split up PDF files and the save the result as a new PDF file. Please note if your original PDF file is too large to upload to PDFHammer then you should download and install PDFTK Builder instead.
- PDFTK Builder
Free Downloadable software that you can use to extract pages from a PDF, collate them and save the result as a new PDF file.
You can watch a tutorial video on how to use PDFTK Builder by clicking here.
"Print out" documents as PDF files
- Cute PDF
This adds a "PDF Printer" to your computer so that you can 'print' documents as PDF files as opposed to printing them out on paper.
- PDF Forge
Similar to Cute PDF - which one you use is down to personal preference.
- PDF Creator
Another tool that does the same job as Cute PDF & PDF Forge - this is the one I use on a daily basis.
Convert files to and from PDF format
- PDF 2 Word
This is a free online service that lets you upload a PDF file and then convert it to a Word Document for free.
- Smart Soft PDF to word converter
This is a bit of free software that you can download, it does exactly the same thing as the website mentioned above.
- PDF Online
Does the exact opposite of PDF 2 Word. It turns Word documents into PDF files.
- HTML to PDF
This free site converts any web page to a PDF file.
Embed or Link to PDFs easily
If you want someone else to read a PDF easily then you can upload it to Google Docs so they can read it on any piece of on-line enabled hardware, without having to have a PDF reader installed.
If the PDF is already hosted online somewhere else then you can use Google's Embeddable Document viewer to allow your recipient(s) to view the PDF document online easily. This also works with Power Points presentations that have been uploaded somewhere!
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