
With these three action items you have everything you need to quickly convert word documents. Save The Word to PDF Workflow as a Plugin

Finally select “Convert Format of Word Document” – Select Portable Document Format (PDF).Next add the “Copy Finder Items” action in automator – This will allow you to backup the items before you perform any action on them.


Office 365 does not include the Word automator actions according to this support thread. Note: For Automator to convert word to PDF you’ll need to have Office 2011 or upgraded your version of Office from 2011. This Automator tip focuses on quickly and easily converting the format of your Microsoft Word documents to PDF by creating a workflow and saving it as a Finder Plugin.
