Issue printing to pdf file from MS Word.

For whatever reason, the federal court system will not accept pdf files created by MS Word (16.92) on my Mac (14.3). It used to, but will not as of about a month ago. My state court system has no problems with it. Does anyone know a good solution? Is there a better pdf creator out there, for example? Yes, I have googled, and thank you in advance. EDIT: A working, but not ideal, solution appears to be to: 1. Print to pdf from Word 2. Open in Preview 3. Save as png 4. Open png in Preview 5. Print to pdf from Preview. Again, not ideal. Not at all. But it does work and I'm going to leave the post up in case someone needs to google the same question. Thank you all; no need for further replies.