Converting Word Document To PDF File

Go to file\print
On the lower left there will be a button that says PDF. Click that and save the file as a PDF.

 

You should be able to open any PDF file on your Mac with the built-in Preview app. For Word documents, you can use one of several apps, including Office for Mac 2008 or 2011, Numbers, OpenOffice, NeoOffice, etc. You could also open Word documents with Google Docs.

 

There are numerous free programs that will let you print to a pdf file on a windows PC. Look for cutepdf or tinypdf as starters ot just Google something like "windows print to pdf". Once you have created the pdf put that it on your mac and then print it.

 

I second the recommendation of CutePDF. It adds a virtual printer device to your Windows system; any time you want to make a PDF of something just print it and choose the CutePDF "printer", then it will ask you where to save the file and what to name it. Free, fast, and easy.

 

Guys, the Word document is on his Windows PC and it appears he doesn't have Word installed on the Mac. Using OS X's built-in PDF converter isn't going to do any good here.

To the original poster, depending on the Word doc's complexity you might be able to open it on the Mac by using the OS X application "TextEdit", which is like Notepad on Windows. Try emailing the document to your Mac and opening it in TextEdit. If that works you can print. If not, follow one of the other suggestions of converting the document to a PDF on your Windows computer, then emailing the PDF to the Mac and printing that.

 

Pages should open it no problem, if you have that on your iMac.

Nonetheless, TextEdit might also do the trick (however, reformatting of the text will probably be necessary).