Need a little help with print (PDF) and VB combo

Burrgogi

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Office Version
  1. 2010
Platform
  1. Windows
I've recorded a macro in MS Excel that selects a virtual printer on my Win7 machine. It directs the output to a folder on my hard drive here: E:\PDF conversions\

This special printer is actually a virtual printer that can take any file and convert it to a PDF file. Problem is that it always takes on the name of the application that I happen to be working with. In this case, if I'm working on a Excel file named "Household Budget 2020", the Ghost printer will generate a PDF file with the following name: "Microsoft Excel - Household Budget 2020.xlsx.pdf"

If I'm working with MS Notepad, and print from there, the filename will read as: "Notepad - something_something.txt.pdf" I think you get the idea.

I don't like all that extra stuff in the file name so I always end up renaming it manually like this: Household Budget 2020.pdf

I would love to be able to have a macro that I can call upon that will do the following:
1) Take the active open workbook and print to the virtual printer as shown in my screenshot (attached to my post).
2) Go to the output directory (E:\PDF conversions)
3) Move the newly created PDF file to: E:\Excel Workbooks\Household STuff\
4) Rename the file by removing "Microsoft Excel -" and ".xlxs" from the middle of the filename so that it becomes "{%VARIABLE%}.pdf" **

** Obviously the filename will vary and will not always be "Household Budget 2020" - I just used that in my example for the post here.

Running Win7 OS and MS 2010.

EDIT:

Before all the comments come in, I do realize that MS Office already has a "Save As PDF" functionality built-in already. For reasons that I don't want to get into right now, there are times when I need to (prefer) to print to this other virtual printer instead. I'd appreciate your help.
 

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