OS X Tip #74
Ok, this is really not an OS X tip really. But it may rid you of an annoying quirk of Microsoft Office for the Mac and Adobe Acrobat. If you installed these applications on your Mac like many have. You are probably seeing this annoying icon below.

In my opinion it serves no purpose and takes up space on the screen. In fact it drops your document down when it loads. As OS X has PDF creation built-in you do not need this icon on your screen. If you would like to get rid of it follow this.

Here’s how:
Go to Applications -> Microsoft Office 2004 -> Office -> Start-up folder.

Next go inside the Start-up folder remove any “PDFMaker” files from the Excel, Word, and PowerPoint folders.

The next time you open Word or Excel the annoyingly PDF icons will be gone!

When you open Adobe Acrobat the next time, if it asks if it is okay to reinstall the PDFMaker. Select no.

Create PDFs
Now how will you make a PDF in OS X?

Just choose Print from your application. Choose Save as PDF. Done.

You will never miss the annoying PDF icon!

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