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Converting Office Documents to PDF with the Office Interop Assemblies

By Stefan Feenstra   /     May 21, 2014  /     Office, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013  /     5 Comments

Converting Office Documents to PDF

If you want to convert a document to PDF you can save it as PDF (File -> Export -> PDF). But what if you have a lot of documents you want to convert to PDF. Then the Office Interop Assemblies could help you. This blog explains how you could use the Office Interop Assemblies to convert Word, PowerPoint and Excel files to PDF.

Prerequisites:
– Microsoft Office needs to be installed
– Some dev skills

This is not something you would like to use on a large production environment. But if you are in need of a onetime solution this could be a solution. Always keep in mind that you backup your Office documents and check the results after converting.

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