One thing that has bothered me (for the last 13 years or so!) about using MS Office as a publication tool is the absence of any support for creating PDF documents. Given that PDF is the de facto standard for publishing documents to the web, would it not be unreasonable to ask for built-in PDF publishing support from the world's most used office productivity suite (MS Office)?
Microsoft have made available a free "Save as PDF" add-on for Office 2007 which allows Office 2007 users to save documents as PDF. Why it is an add-on and not part of the core product I have no idea.
But for those of us running earlier versions of Office (I run 2003), we are still not getting any love from Microsoft when it comes to PDF publication. Fortunately there is Bullzip's Free PDF Printer, which does a reasonably good job of creating PDF's from almost any Windows application that can print (it installs itself as a 'printer' on your system). I tried it today with great results on Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
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