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Do you have the original Excel and Word files?
If so, that will significantly reduce your work.
Since you were planning to scan and convert to a .pdf, you must have Adobe Acrobat (not the Reader) Standard or Professional or another program that can create .pdf's or convert existing files as BillG suggested. I've used PDF995. It does work nice but opens up your browser for a sales pitch every time you print to pdf. If you plan on doing much of this kind of thing, it's worth buying the full version or Adobe (get an older version off eBay). I use Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (upgraded from 5.0).
If you have Acrobat, and it's been installed correctly, you can print, or select the file or files and convert ( select a file, right click and you'll see the Adobe commands.
Printing directly to pdf will result in a much higher quality and smaller file size then you can do by scanning hard copies.
Adobe is pretty intuitive. If you have it and need help, send me a PM. PDF995 is also pretty easy to use (I've printed to it, but don't know if it can convert and combine)...as written above, it continuously opens your browser to the sales page (pain in the butt).
If you do not have the original Excell and Word files, and you must scan, select the highest quality you can get for printing to .pdf. You can delete the scanned images once you've printed or converted to pdf. You cannot make a low quality scan better after the fact. The .Tiff format will give you a high quality. Converting to another image format (.jpg, for example) will likely lower the quality. BTW, in my experience, once converted to pdf, a large (in kb) image file results in a relatively small (in kb) pdf file, even though it looks as good as the original image.
If so, that will significantly reduce your work.
Since you were planning to scan and convert to a .pdf, you must have Adobe Acrobat (not the Reader) Standard or Professional or another program that can create .pdf's or convert existing files as BillG suggested. I've used PDF995. It does work nice but opens up your browser for a sales pitch every time you print to pdf. If you plan on doing much of this kind of thing, it's worth buying the full version or Adobe (get an older version off eBay). I use Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (upgraded from 5.0).
If you have Acrobat, and it's been installed correctly, you can print, or select the file or files and convert ( select a file, right click and you'll see the Adobe commands.
Printing directly to pdf will result in a much higher quality and smaller file size then you can do by scanning hard copies.
Adobe is pretty intuitive. If you have it and need help, send me a PM. PDF995 is also pretty easy to use (I've printed to it, but don't know if it can convert and combine)...as written above, it continuously opens your browser to the sales page (pain in the butt).
If you do not have the original Excell and Word files, and you must scan, select the highest quality you can get for printing to .pdf. You can delete the scanned images once you've printed or converted to pdf. You cannot make a low quality scan better after the fact. The .Tiff format will give you a high quality. Converting to another image format (.jpg, for example) will likely lower the quality. BTW, in my experience, once converted to pdf, a large (in kb) image file results in a relatively small (in kb) pdf file, even though it looks as good as the original image.