How to Create an Adobe PDF File From an Access Database
From your Databases Guide

Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) offers a great method of sharing data across the Internet while preserving formatting. It's simple to generate these files from an Access database.

Difficulty Level: Easy    Time Required: 5 minutes

1. Ensure Adobe Acrobat is installed on your system. Note: You need the FULL version of Acrobat which is a commercial product, not the free reader.
2. Open Access.
3. Open the database of interest.
4. Open the form, report, table or query that you wish to turn into a .PDF file.
5. Select Print from the File menu.
6. Change your printer name to "Acrobat PDFwriter" using the drop-down menu.
7. Click OK.
8. When the "Save PDF File As" dialog box opens, enter a file name for your Acrobat file.
9. Click Save.
10. Open the file using Acrobat Reader and ensure that the process completed successfully.
    

Related Information:

• Microsoft Access Fundamentals
• Sharing Access Data with Web Users
• Microsoft Access Tutorials
• Microsoft Access Resource Page
  

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