But that option is buried in the ribbon interface and involves quite a number of clicks. In recent versions of Word, it is also pretty simple: just Save as… and select PDF. In LaTex, creating PDFs is a question of one simple command (plus a bit of fiddling with settings). One of the most common word-processing related task for academics is to generate PDF versions of documents - for sharing with colleagues, for submission to a journal, for uploading to a publication page, et cetera.
