PDF to cloud

PS: I have just tried this: Opened Outlook>New email>Insert>Attach File>Brows this PC>to the OneDrive Folder on the PC>Found a file>Clicked on it>OK>It as normal attached to the email for sending.

PPS: So you can have a folder on OneDrive called 'sent to mum' and still attached to an email from the OneDrive folder on your PC.

Yes, I was just going to come back to you>I suggest that you create a folder maybe (called 'Docs Sent to Mum) that is not included in OneDrive (on a second drive if you have one). Unless you have backed up everything on your computer there will be somewhere on C Drive to save the folder. Also, see Back up your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folders with OneDrive (microsoft.com) You could save the folder to the desktop unless you have included to save to OneDrive.

Anyhow, when you open a document at>Open your OneDrive folder>You can choose>Save As>Save to 'Docs sent to Mum'. You can then attach it to an email and you will also have a record of what you have sent home.

Hi

Thank you for your reply. We need to be able to upload pdf's to third party websites (for example the third party website we use to bulk communicate with parents) which cannot access our cloud when we try to add an attachment. So if you know how to do that bit, that would be amazing!

Jane, yes, you sure can convert word to pdf and save both the OneDrive and anywhere on your computer. There are a number of ways for doing this so it is up to you.

Note: When you do as you explained, that is, Export convert>Save to OneDrive. If you right click on OneDrive (cloud) on the taskbar>Open your OneDrive folder>You will see all your files on OneDrive (if there is little blue cloud) on on your computer (little green tick). You can open the document that you have just saved to OneDrive and save it to wherever you want. Not sure why you would want to when the pdf is available with easy access on your computer. When you have finished with the any of the files>Right click on it>Choose>Free up space>This will remove the file from your computer but leave it on OneDrive.

You can access the same folder from Window Explorer>See little blue cloud in left hand side of dialogue box.

We have recently started using Microsoft Cloud in our school and also create lots of documents that we pdf before sending to parents. When we create the pdf in the past we clicked on 'export' and then 'create PDF/XPS' and we were able to save the document into a folder on our drive. Is this possible to do this and save to the cloud? I can see how to create a PDF after creating a word document via the cloud but it does not seem to save this way either.

Hi Jane Smith917,

First and foremost, thanks for reaching out to our Microsoft Community Forum and please accept our sincerest hope that all is well.

We understand that you're wanted to save Word documents as PDF into OneDrive -- our cloud service -- instead of saving locally to your computer's hard drive.

To save to OneDrive all you really need to do is to follow our Save your document to OneDrive in Word guide.

We look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

Glenn Rue

Consumer M365 Forum Moderator

Microsoft Community