PDF to Word 2003 errors

[Ann Barnes]

Using Acrobat Pro 7.0, patched to latest last week, to open a document and Save Ss MS Word. It does work, and not too badly after the latest patches (it used to just get Rich Text!), but we are working many, many documents with hundreds of pages of techy info, and can't afford time to proof the details of the entire thing.

Some problems I see:
There is an umlaut-y character where the document had indented paragraphs. What is it? Any way to global replace it with tab?
There is a space added before some indented paragraphs and also before the return at the end of a paragraph.

The latest patches to Word and Acrobat have fixed much of this, but wondered if anyone has a better way to go from PDF to Word 2003 without purchasing or installing something else; (this is a workplace, we cannot install new software without jumping thru hoops, and end document has to meet other folks' formatting and cannot have stray formatting commands from a third party in there).

Thanks for any others of you who've bumped into and resolved this conversion.

Ann in PA

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Any time you go from .pdf to a Word doc your results are going to be sketchy
at best. I assume that the original documents were not created with Word?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Ann Barnes" <barnesa underscore 17201 at yahoo dotcom> wrote in message
Using Acrobat Pro 7.0, patched to latest last week, to open a document and
Save Ss MS Word. It does work, and not too badly after the latest patches
(it used to just get Rich Text!), but we are working many, many documents
with hundreds of pages of techy info, and can't afford time to proof the
details of the entire thing.

Some problems I see:
There is an umlaut-y character where the document had indented paragraphs.
What is it? Any way to global replace it with tab?
There is a space added before some indented paragraphs and also before the
return at the end of a paragraph.

The latest patches to Word and Acrobat have fixed much of this, but wondered
if anyone has a better way to go from PDF to Word 2003 without purchasing or
installing something else; (this is a workplace, we cannot install new
software without jumping thru hoops, and end document has to meet other
folks' formatting and cannot have stray formatting commands from a third
party in there).

Thanks for any others of you who've bumped into and resolved this
conversion.

Ann in PA