Like the other commenter said, try pressing F5, or right-click the empty space in a folder and click "refresh". The file is likely there, but sometimes Explorer just doesn't update immediately for whatever reason.
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May just be file system view needs a refresh. I see this all the time. Hit F5 on the Explorer view to force a refresh.
Only ever takes me seconds to create a PDF (when I do it, which is rarely).
You could also save it in an old version of Word - pretty much any app can read versions like Word 97 these days, or choose another (open) document format.
Friends don't let friends voluntarily use PDF.
Is there an open-source file format for print? PDFs are still so widely used because they're the only format (that I'm aware of) where you can take what you see on your screen, send it to someone else, and it will look/print exactly the same way. I'd love it if there was an equivalent FOSS option that I didn't need a pirated Adobe Acrobat to edit effectively.
I remember seeing a post several months ago about how Copilot being enabled in MS programs caused horrible slowdowns (with some speculation that it was sending data to MS servers and waiting for responses). That might be something to look into if you're allowed to disable Copilot at all