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It is assumed all users have installed the PDFMaker addon in MS Office 2007. To confirm, everyone should see a tab titled "Acrobat" displayed on this bar.

Note: When copying and pasting cells, Acrobat PDFMaker can not create Tags from Worksheets with print areas set. By selecting the cells as you have and converting them to bitmap you are violating this function.

As I understand it, you are copying cells in excel, pasting them into MS Word, and trying to convert the Word paste to PDF.

Why not just convert the Excel file to PDF from the Excel Acrobat tab?

If you want to link a PDF to Excel there are several ways to do that (package, hyperlink, and etc).

This solution is merely a suggestion that may or may not work. Also understand we experts are supporting Acrobat and suggestions for correcting issues with MS Office are limited to our knowledge of this application.

If this is not what you're trying to achieve, please re-post this question.

Hope this helps.

You need to restore MS Office to its original installation configuration. Ignore those hot fix links you were directed to.

Go to this URL

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta … laylang=en

Description of the PDF Converter for MS Office:

2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS

Brief Description
This download allows you to export and save to the PDF and XPS formats in eight 2007 Microsoft Office programs. It also allows you to send as e-mail attachment in the PDF and XPS formats in a subset of these programs.

System Requirements:

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP Service Pack 2
This download works with the following Office programs:

Microsoft Office Access 2007
Microsoft Office Excel 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
Microsoft Office Visio 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007

Install this Add-in and the Acrobat tab will show up in every MS Office applications menu bar. The reason why the current Acrobat tab does not work is because this add-in is not installed.

I'm running MS Office 2007 in a Windows Vista OS and duplicated what you have done.

(1.) Opened Excel and a small spreadsheet table that fits within a 1 inch page margin.
(2.) Selected the columns and rows in the table and clicked copy to clipboard.
(3.) Opened MS Word and paste the clipboard content into the page.
(4.) Clicked the MS Office button, selected Save As, and chose PDF or XPS

The Word doc was converted to PDF sucessfully and did not display a black box.

As far as I know, Microsoft does not consider their PDF converter a "Hot Fix". It is considered an add in for the Office 2007 Menu bar. Any "Hot Fix" you've installed could be causing this problem. Also, in the process of solving the problem, you may have changed the Distiller settings for MS Office applications.
If you don't see an option from the MS Office 2007 button to SaveAs, PDF or XPS, then you don't have the converter properly installed. If you do see this option, check the Adobe Distiller settings.

Here are two Adobe Knowledge base articles that may offer additional help.


When the excel tables are pasted into the word docCombining files into a PDF file.

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video … d0102.html

One-click workflow from Office to PDF

http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/acrob … cepdf.html

We are having this same issue by a client of ours and all the above stated information does not solve any problems. The MS PDF creator is very limited in functionality. We were actually having this problem with normal printers, not just PDF creators. After some testing, we noticed that is actually has to do with PS Drivers, and not Acrobat. As soon as we switched the drivers for the printers to PCL, the printouts were good. As with most PDF creators (we are not using Adobe by this client), I believe Abode creates pdf files via a PS driver, hence creating the black box. So, I guess what I am saying is, it is a MS problem, not a Adobe or any other pdf creator's problem, however if anyone does find a working solution, please post.