It is not a great idea to assume that your students and/or their families have Microsoft Office on the computer they use to access your website. If you are uploading Word or Publisher documents or Excel files, and your end user does not have Office installed, they may have trouble accessing your documents.
Making all your documents PDF files before you upload/save them to your Google drive helps insure they still look the way you want them to and that they can be read on most computers (a PDF reader is a free download if it isn't standard on a computer).
To make a PDF of the document you want to publish, you can:
- Choose “save as” and change the file type to PDF when your document is finalized
- Choose “print” and choose “CutePDF writer” as the printer and follow the prompts to save your document
Enjoy your webmastering!
