Thing #24 Zamzar.

23 April 2008

Back again...

[Just loved this picture - irony in the extreme]

Now on with the learning result...







http://www.zamzar.com/ was extremely easy to use, especially once I knew to scroll down the screen a bit to find that the document I'd selected for conversion had been selected alright (I did wonder at first if it was actually letting me upload a document off of the share drive or not).









Couldn't select a .tif doc which was a pain - that's what I'd most use it for (convert to pdf).









Did .doc to .pdf and then .pdf to .doc

.doc to .pdf worked a treat. Not sure that I've ever had a need for this, but it worked all the same.

.pdf to .doc didn't work so great. Sure, I can now add text before the article I chose, I can add text over and even add a picture over the top and I can add text after. But I can't seem to alter the original text. Ah, well.


Did take awhile for them to arrive... Probably our end, rather than zamzar.





As expected, there were quite a few popups associated with using this free site - but that seems perfectly normal these days! And they're rather keen that you join up.