Hi ronknights, I would make one recommendation to make your life easier. I work with MS Word to make PDF's all the time, and I find it works SOOOO much better to just print to the Acrobat PDF Writer rather then to use the Distiller. There's less time and less error involved. You could select properties for additional options like embedding fonts and adjusting compression quality, etc. Adobe Acrobat loads this printing option to MS Word automatically if you have the full version. Good luck, visualkinetics