Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning
Converting Word Documents to PDF on Windows"Convert to Adobe PDF" icon will appear on the tool bar in Microsoft Word.
Open the Word document you've created.
Click on the Adobe icon 
Name the file. Microsoft Word will have inserted a long file name based on the first words in your document. Change that to something short and meaningful like hist120b_syllabus.pdf. The "Save as type:" field will read "PDF files"
It may take a few minutes to convert to PDF.
After the conversion process is complete, open the PDF file to be sure it looks exactly as you intended.
If you need to make changes you can either return to the original Microsoft Word file, make the changes and convert to PDF again or you can use Adobe Acrobat to edit the file.