Why not just save it as a PDF in Word itself?!? Seems the logical option.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3c-6d89-4f15-991b-63b07ba5f2e5&displaylang=en
I use Cute PDF. It's free and works well.
not all versions and sometimes people need to save to pdf from other applications too
Sometimes they do. However "I have a word document I need to turn into a pdf" suggests he's using Word.