1 The Complete Microsoft Office File Converter Guide Written by Gavin Phillips Published December 2015. Read the original article here: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-complete-microsoft-office-file- converter-guide/ This ebook is the intellectual property of MakeUseOf. It must only be published in its original form. Using parts or republishing altered parts of this ebook is prohibited without permission from MakeUseOf.com. Read more stories like this at MakeUseOf.com 2 Table of contents PDF to Office 6 PDFMate 6 WinScan2PDF 7 PDFTables 8 Smallpdf 9 CloudConvert Beta 10 Office to PDF 11 Word 12 Word to PDF 13 Word to JPEG 14 Word to EPUB 14 Excel 16 Excel to Office (Copy & Paste) 16 Excel to Office (Embed) 16 Excel to PDF 16 Excel to HTML 17 Excel to JSON 18 Outlook 20 Microsoft Print-to-PDF 20 Outlook Print to PDF (Windows 10) 20 Outlook Print to PDF (Windows 7, 8, 8.1) 21 Outlook to XPS 21 Outlook Contacts to Excel 22 PowerPoint 23 PowerPoint to PDF 23 PowerPoint to Video 24 PowerPoint to OneNote 25 PowerPoint to Sway 26 OneNote 27 OneNote Handwriting to Text 27 Evernote to OneNote 28 OneNote to Office 29 Other Useful Office Converters 30 Office Lens 30 Pages to Word 30 3 Microsoft Works 6–9 File Converter 31 Excel Viewer 32 Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data 32 Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack 32 OpenDocument Format 32 The Big MakeUseOf Office Converters Roundup 33 4 Office 2016 arrived on our desktops not too long ago, receiving largely positive reviews across the tech-sphere. Rightly so; it has upgraded a number of important features, and added heaps more to the ever-popular office suite. Conversely, others have argued that despite smatterings of new features, Microsoft merely updated the Office aesthetics and waited to cash in. If you’ve used any iteration of Office for any length of time, you’ve likely cursed when you realized your format was unsupported, and had to crawl around the Internet for a converter. In true MakeUseOf tradition, we thought it best to lock one of our authors in a small room with no windows, only emerging once this Microsoft Office File Converter Guide was complete. Go ahead and find the converter of your dreams, right here, right now. Don’t miss out on the gems hidden in the very last section of this guide, including Office Lens, removing hidden data from Office files, and the Microsoft Office compatibility pack. 5 PDF to Office A substantial number of online services offer PDF to Word conversions, and many of them are excellent. However, if you have to convert anything of a sensitive nature, be that personal or business related, you really shouldn’t upload anything to a third-party site. PDFMate Formats: Word, Text, EPUB, HTML, SWF, JPEG Simple, free, and covering a handful of useful formats, PDFMate also comes with some handy additional tools, such as document encryption, batch conversions, multi-language support, and a host of other customizable settings. " 6 WinScan2PDF Formats: Word WinScan2PDF is a tiny, portable PDF scanner. Coming in at just 30 KB, it is a very basic program, but it does its job. The options are Select Source, Scan, Cancel, and Multiple Pages. Point it at whichever Word document you would like to turn into a PDF, and off you go. " 7 PDFTables Formats: Excel, CSV, XML, HTML PDFTables is an online PDF to Excel conversion service. It is very quick, and very easy. Once you’ve uploaded your file you are presented with several options, including opening the newly extracted data table in Office Online. You can also choose a CSV or XML version, and PDFTables has its own API for advanced users to take a look at. " PDFTables also offers an automated conversion and/or data scraping service, as well as a premium account for regular users. 8 Smallpdf Formats: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, JPEG, HTML Their tagline is “We make PDF easy,” and I believe developers Mathis, Manuel, and Lino are right. Smallpdf can handle a number of convenient PDF conversions, including PDF to PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, as well as support for JPEGs. You can also merge multiple PDFs into a single file, split PDFs into multiple files, or use the unlock feature to remove any basic passwords (caveat: truly encrypted documents will remain that way!). " 9 CloudConvert Beta Formats: Too many to list them all. CloudConvert Beta ticked a number of boxes for me. It supports a massive 206 formats across audio, video, documents, ebooks, archives, spreadsheets, and more, even supporting CAD file conversion. See below for a tiny snippet of that list. However, the amount of conversion you can complete for free at one time is limited. " You have 10 conversion minutes per day, with a maximum file size of 100MB. Signing up to CloudConvert raises this ceiling to 25 minutes per day, with a maximum file size of 1GB. For anything more, you’ll need to purchase a subscription, or buy a prepaid number of conversion minutes. These minutes come with added bonus features, such as unlimited concurrent conversions and unlimited file size. But if you are simply converting a PDF to a Word document, or other Microsoft Office file type, you’re unlikely to need more than the 25 minute conversion package. Finally, you can add files directly from your Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, straight from a URL, or just drop one of your own files directly onto the page. 10 Office to PDF The single most popular document formats outside of Office is the PDF and Microsoft finally caught on. Now, most Office applications have an “Export to PDF” feature as standard. Depending on your version of Office, you’ll need to head to File > Export. Here, you should spot the Create PDF/XPS Document option. Select this, and off you go. Note that Outlook does not feature this export option, but we’ve included a solution a little further down the page, under Outlook to PDF. 11 Word Using Word to convert files is entirely sensible. It already exists on your computer, you have instant access, and there is no need to introduce any other software to your system. What’s more, it is quick, refreshingly easy, and each individual program within the Office suite can be used similarly. Altering the filetype of your Word document takes place during the save process. When I am working on a document, I have auto-save cranked “up to 11# (or every couple of minutes), but that doesn’t mean you should neglect good saving practice. You never know what might be on its way. " When you do make that first manual save, you’ll encounter a dialogue box asking for your preferred save location. Altering the Save as type delivers you a list of alternative file types, from earlier versions of Word, to plain text documents, to Open Document, and XML. 12 Word to PDF Saving a Word document to PDF is an easy process, achieved without leaving the safe confines of Word, and without need for third-party software. Assuming you have Word open, head to File > Export > Create PDF/XPS Document. " You’ll then enter the file manager. Browse to your desired save location. Note the Options button. Options include page range selection, the publishable range, the inclusion of non-printing information, and other PDF options such as ISO 19005-1 compliance (PDF/A), bitmap text replacement when fonts may not be embedded, and document encryption. " When you’re ready, hit Publish, and you’re golden! 13 Word to JPEG You can convert Word to JPEG using OneNote, but that method is extremely long winded and ultimately, in an age where the majority of individuals have access to the Internet, it is easier to head to a conversion website. In this case, I’m using free online file conversion site Zamzar.com, which I’m sure many of you have encountered before. They convert a massive range of file; luckily for us, .doc or .docx to .jpeg is one of them. " Head to the site. Make sure you’ve selected the correct input and output from the drop down lists, and then drag your file, or use the file manager to browse to it. Once ready, you’ll be asked to enter your email address to receive your converted files. I usually use a 10 Minute Mail account as I don’t want the spam, but you can do what you please. Once everything is ready, press Convert Now, and wait for the converted file to appear in your inbox. Word to EPUB You can use previously mentioned conversion site Zamzar for this task, but I don’t find their conversions of text to a readable format entirely useful. I’ve used Calibre for a long time, and you can use it to manage your entire ebook collection, as well as make use of the handy inbuilt converter. " Head to Calibre-Ebook.com and download the software. It comes in many flavors, and even has a 64-bit version, which is nice. Once downloaded, install Calibre and open it up. 14 Use the Add books button to add your document to Calibre as a book. Now select Convert books. This will open a new dialogue box with numerous options on the left-hand side. In the top-right, you should spot Output format. Make sure EPUB is selected. " From the left-hand options column, select Page Setup. Here you can choose from a number of preset Output profiles, designed to ease your reading experience on many popular e-readers.