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Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: intel Is it possible to "convert" (or copy and then paste) a PDF file into a word document? I was trying to do this yesterday and only the first page of an 11 page PDF document "copied" into the Word document I was working with. And it seemed to be a picture. I wanted to transfer and insert all 11 pages. I didn't seem to have any lucky pasting the other pages into the Word document, even as a picture. thanks in advance There is or was a feature in I believe in Acrobat that allow you to convert to a RTF Document. If you have acrobat or some such utility that could do that. you could save the file as a DOCX document and then insert it into your document. > Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > thanks in advance  Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 |pjones@kimbanet.com, ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:pjones@kimbanet.com <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm> <http://www.vpea.org> Unless you happen to own a pretty decent OCR software, this is going to be a difficult task. If you only want to use the text, open the PDF in Adobe Reader and choose File>Save as Text. This creates a text file of the PDF document which you can then open in Word. > Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > thanks in advance SignatureMichel Bintener Microsoft MVP Office:mac (Entourage & Word) *** Please always reply to the newsgroup. *** > Version: 2008 > Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > thanks in advance PDFs are graphic documents. You can use the shareware programme "GraphicConverter" to convert the PDF to a series of different graphic files. If you want to turn it into editable text, you will have to buy the full blown Adobe Acrobat package - even then, the editable text you will get will be laid out nothing like the original document used to create the pdf. SignatureBarry Wainwright Microsoft MVP Actually there are two forms of PDF's: graphics which are not editable at all. And a Text format that only can be edited in Acrobat or some type of program That can edit PDF. In Acrobat 7, much better in 8 and perhaps even better in 9 (Although I don't own nor can I at this time afford it) convert PDF's to word Format. But you have to have Acrobat to allow you to save a s a word document. once you save the document open both and which ever is easier copy and paste to one or the other then save the combined document as something else >> Version: 2008 >> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > - even then, the editable text you will get will be laid out nothing > like the original document used to create the pdf. Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phillip M. Jones, CET |LIFE MEMBER: VPEA ETA-I, NESDA, ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112 |pjones@kimbanet.com, ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If it's "fixed", don't "break it"! mailto:pjones@kimbanet.com <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/90th_Birthday/index.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Fulcher/default.html> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Harris/default.htm> <http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/Jones/default.htm> <http://www.vpea.org> > PDFs are graphic documents. > > You can use the shareware programme "GraphicConverter" to convert the > PDF to a series of different graphic files.\ Improvement in 2008! Word will do this for you. Word will only ever let you insert a single-page image, period. However, in Word 2008, if you use Insert | Picture | From File, and select a multi-page PDF, Word will offer a preview window. In the Preview window, you can select which page to insert, and you can repeat this until you have inserted each page as a separate image. Now, it might wind up faster to use the Preview features in Leopard to convert an 11-page PDF into 11 separate single page files and insert each one, but this is a new feature I thought I would highlight, as the question comes up periodically. However, the original poster seemed to prefer the PDF converted into text, which Word will not help with. So I guess that's just an FYI. :-) |
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