Are you using the button on the Word toolbar to create the PDF?  Try
printing to Distiller instead.  (Go to File > Print and select Acrobat
Distiller from the list of printers.)

Clicking on the button runs a Word macro to collect information about
the document's structure and add tagging to the PDF.  It's also used
for preserving any hyperlinks and creating a table of bookmarks based
on the Word styles used.  If you don't need any of these features,
printing to Distiller should be simpler and will probably result in a
smaller file.

Rachel Burnsed
burnsed@bcltechnologies.com

Yes, I was using the Print function, not the Acrobat button.  (I neve
use the Acrobat button and have removed it from my toolbar.)

I just went to check whether I was using Print to Distiller or Print t
PDFWriter.  Distiller did run this time.  The difference was that I wa
in Normal view rather than Print Layout view.  However, the pdf fil
was 40% larger than the Word file.  There are GIF's in the header an
footer, but I used this same template in another file ? one withou
tables ? and that pdf is 12% smaller than its Word file.

If I use Print to PDFWriter even in Normal view, I have the sam
problem