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Acrobat DC hangs while converting Word docs to Adobe .PDF files within Win Explorer

A Windows 10 user running Adobe Acrobat DC (with all of the Windows 10 & Acrobat updates installed) has problems with Adobe Acrobat freezing while she converts Word 2013 & 2016 documents (saved on a network drive) to .PDF files.

She browses to where these Word documents are saved on the network drives using Windows Explorer and then right clicks on the document and chooses to convert the document to a PDF.

The progress bar then appears and towards the end of the conversion process will freeze (and won't progress any further) and the Word document won't convert to a .PDF file.

I have cleared the temporary and temporary internet files and have repaired Acrobat DC (and then rebooted) but we still continue to have this issue.

What else can be done to fix this issue so that Acrobat DC will stop hanging during the conversion process?
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@  Knowledgeable - Thanks and good luck with Adobe.
So in that situation as you described it, reinstalling the pdf maker addin (as described) solved it?
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I have discovered that Adobe Acrobat Pro and Adobe DC errors out when converting MS Office files because of the version of Office that Adobe supports.  You have to change the Adobe registry key that sets the MS Office compatible version.  Installing Skype 2016 broke our Adobe, so if you look at the decimal value of the DWORD value, you are just changing it to 2016.  Search for the GreatestSuppVer and LowestSuppVer registry keys.

Here is the registry change:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker\11.0\Office\SupportedVer]
"LowestSuppVer"=dword:0000000a
"GreatestSuppVer"=dword:00000010

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker\11.0\Outlook\SupportedVer]
"GreatestSuppVer"=dword:00000010
"LowestSuppVer"=dword:0000000a

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker\11.0\Office\SupportedVer]
"LowestSuppVer"=dword:0000000a
"GreatestSuppVer"=dword:00000010

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker\11.0\Outlook\SupportedVer]
"LowestSuppVer"=dword:0000000a
"GreatestSuppVer"=dword:00000010

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\11.0\Installer\X64Registry\PDFMaker\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker\11.0\Office\SupportedVer]
"LowestSuppVer"=dword:0000000a
"GreatestSuppVer"=dword:00000010

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\11.0\Installer\X64Registry\PDFMakerForOutlook\HKLM\Software\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker\11.0\Outlook\SupportedVer]
"GreatestSuppVer"=dword:00000010
"LowestSuppVer"=dword:0000000a
So the selected solution did not solve it, if I get you right?
Right - what broke our Adobe is Skype 2016.  Allegedly, even though we have MS Office 2010, Skype has components that work with Skype 2016.  Uninstalling and re-installing Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.1 did not solve the issue for us.  If you look at the decimal value of the DWORD it is set to 15, so changing it to 16 sets the GreatestSuppVer to Office 2016.  This fixed it for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Skype.