Plans that go wrong

So I had this great plan, I would convert an exsisting manuscript to 8.5*11 so that it the right size to be printed in hardback.

Step one, the converting was in the end okay as it only took a few hours and it looked good at the end of it all.

Step two, now thats when things started to go off the rails in a real big way. The upload to LULU was okay and that worked. The next step converting the document into a printable PDF did not go right, in fact it failed. Now the big problem is that I don't know why the conversion failed as LULU don't say why the document failed, they just say that it failed, yeh I know so useful.

So I am at a loss what to do...

I think I shall have another look at the Dirk Maggs book the drafts that I have done so far....

I last thjought I did have was to try a differant wp programme to se if that is the problem. I normally use word 2003 nice and old and it mostly works and so should be without any major problems.