Copying Adobe file to word

[Carla]

How do I take the information in an Adobe file and copy it
into a Word document?

 

[martinique]

If you have Acrobat 5 or later, open the document in Acrobat and SaveAs RTF.
Word will open RTF files. It's not perfect, but you do get all the text and
most of the formatting.

 

[martinique]

The SaveAs options were introduced with version 5.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Actually, my copies of Acrobat Reader do not have the ability to save to
RTF. Version 5.1 has Export to Text, and Version 6 has Save as Text--which
don't preserve any formatting.

Version 5.1 does have Save As, but the only option is .pdf. Version 6 has
Save a Copy, but again, the only option is .pdf format, not .rtf.

Using the free reader, I believe the only free option for retaining
formatting is to copy to the clipboard and paste into Word. If the document
is columnar, you'll have "fun" trying to line the pieces up. As you
suggested earlier, there are some products that allow you to open .pdf files
in Word for editing (scansoft.com has one such product, but I can't vouch
for how well it works, since I've only dabbled briefly with it), but I'm not
aware of any that are free.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I believe the subject under discussion is Acrobat (full product), not the
Reader, Herb.

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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Carla's original question was:

"How do I take the information in an Adobe file and copy it into a Word
document?"

So, I assumed that Carla has the .pdf file, and perhaps the reader, but not
the full product.