Column Break

[cadking2k5]

I converted a pdf file to a word doc and it is full of column break
like every other line. the page is in like three columns but I can'
copy one column because of all the column breaks I highlight it it jump
to the next column (row) how do I delete them with out the text it h
second column jumping to the first column and have the text under i
come up to i

 

[Stefan Blom]

This is common in converted documents, depending on the OCR (optical
character recognition) program that did the conversion. You may have no
other choice than reformatting the content manually, I'm afraid.

 

[james11]

cadking2k5 wrote on 03/06/2014 18:02 ET

I converted a pdf file to a word doc and it is full of column break
like every other line. the page is in like three columns but I can'
copy one column because of all the column breaks I highlight it it jump
to the next column (row) how do I delete them with out the text it h
second column jumping to the first column and have the text under i
come up to i




cadking2k

Did you try to return standard one-column mode? I hope it may work for you

Follow these steps to return standard one-column mode
- Go-to the Page Layout Section and choose Columns from group
- Select More Columns option
- Choose One from Presets area of the Columns dialog box
- Now select Whole document from the Apply to drop-down list and click OK
- Don

Let me know if you need further assistance.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

DO NOT do what this message says. This will jumble the text together from
all the different columns. The only way to deal with having tried to turn
a pdf into editable text is to handle it line by line.