Page reversal in converting from Word to PDF

[Robert_Holt@adobeforums.com]

I am running Acrobat 6.0.1 on OSX 10.3.5, and I am a beginner with the former. Twice, I have converted Word files to PDF via the Print--Save as PDF method, and the pages have appeared in reverse order. The numbers are right, but p. 1 comes last! The only way I know to correct it is to drag the thmbnail from one end to the other, which is tedious, slow, and with documents as big as mine, really impossible. (I am putting together the parts of a 900 page book, to be published on a CD.)

I desperately need help in finding out how to make the conversion correctly ( I did it once, and don't recall that there was anything different), or at the least how to get the pages to come up in numerical order.

[Aandi_Inston@adobeforums.com]

Print a Word document of two pages, and observe the order the pages
come out of the printer? Are they coming out in reverse order,
perhaps because they come out face up, and that way the final
collection of pages is in the right order?

Aandi Inston

[Robert_Holt@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, I had just realized that I set my printer so that it printed the last pages first. Once I changed that setting, the conversion works just the way it is supposed to.

Unfortunately, something in my Word X program is consistently lousing up my work, so that to convert again some big documents that came out backwards means spending many hours fighting MS Word to get hundreds of pages formatted right so I can convert them again. If anyone knows a way, working in AcrobatProfessional 6.01, to reverse the order of pages already converted, it could save me a hell of a lot of dull work--all the harder because I have had to do it several times already to the same material!

For example, I have over a dozen tables showing the results of applying my coding method to narratives. At the bottom of each is a series of 8 indices summarizing it. The headings are all in Times New Roman 12. For reasons known only to itself, Word decides to change the first one to 14 points; delete the underlining of the second and secretly adding 11 points of space after it; putting another in bold face; etc. Ihave checked Styles and made them all Normal; that seems not to have been it. I know this is a Word problem, not an Adobe one, but if you can help...