Free PDF Conversion Method, Converting PDF From Word and Activating Hyperlinks

Almost everyday, I see someone posting in the Internet Marketing forums throughout the net, "Hi, I am looking for good PDF converter that activates hyperlinks, is there a free one?"
These repeated posts just show new people coming online don't use search feature to look for such posts. Hence here is the step by step instruction.
1. Visit OpenOffice.org and download Open Office suite.
2. After downloading and installing, open Writer within the suite.
3. From within Writer, which looks exactly like Microsoft Word, open any one of your Word doc on your computer.
4. Click on PDF feature within Writer (this feature is standard with Open Office Writer), then save document as .pdf format.
There you have it. You didn't realize how easy this could be accomplished, did you? Alternatively, you may start a new document using Writer and save as PDF file directly instead of first creating a file using Microsoft Word.
Other alternatives may be to purchase PDF converter online. However, you'll probably find Open Office Writer easy to use. For some reason, number of PDF converters online save hyperlinks as image and this prevents their versions of PDF from activating hyperlinks.
Paid PDF converters become useful if you need to add advanced security feature, unlock PDF and convert it back to Word or conduct markup.
However, for average Internet Marketers to simply upload and save as PDF, these types of tools become unnecessary. There you have step by step instruction on converting PDF as well as activating hyperlink URL in your PDF.