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Message: [QUOTE="John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh], post: 6859657"] Hi Chris: It's simply called "Acrobat" these days. What used to be called "Acrobat Reader" is now named "Adobe Reader"; the name "Acrobat" is reserved for the editor. Phillip is correct: Acrobat 7 will save the document as a Microsoft Word Document, or as RTF, which Word can read (and in a variety of other formats as well). There are two cautions: 1) It's expensive... There are freeware alternatives. 2) The "quality" of the result may not be what you expect. PostScript does not usually contain enough information to reproduce a Word Document. What you will get is a file that Word can edit, but the formatting will be quite strange compared to the way you would normally expect a Word document to be produced. You will be able to edit it, but the way the file is constructed may be a little odd. If the file you have is a PDF, then Adobe Reader will enable you to copy the text out (without any formatting) page by page. It's often quicker to do this and simply reformat it from scratch in Word. Cheers -- Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email me unless I ask you to. John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410 [/QUOTE]