Because even after conversion each page is going to contain ONE image. If it is a scanned document, there is no point in converting. If you have purchased some material which is someone else’s Intellectual Property, we must respect it.
If the original PDF is copy and edit protected, Word will NOT be able to make it editable. This is not a workaround to edit protected PDFs. Now if I open the same document with Word, here is what I get. Why? Because PDF does not store it internally as a table. Here is a table I am trying to copy from a PDF file.Īfter pasting it in Word, it looks like this. This is because PDF stores the text and the layout separately. Copy pasting tabular dataĭirect Copy Paste from a PDF table into Word, Excel or any other application does not work. But I recommend that you do not overwrite the original PDF. If you want you can always change the file type and save it as a PDF. Save As dialog appears and the default format is DOCX – which is Word document. When you finish and choose SAVE the file is NOT saved as PDF.
Once opened in Word, you edit and format things as you usually do. Be patient – especially for large documents. So if there are titles in the PDF document, Word recognizes that these are titles and then automatically applies Word heading styles to them. But at the end of it, it is recreating the PDF document using features of Word. Word has to guess the content and formatting. PDF files store information in a different way. Due to this, the look and feel may not match exactly.Ĭlick Don’t show this message again and Click Ok. It is basically saying that Word is going to intelligently guess the contents, layout and formatting in the PDF file and it is going to convert it into equivalent Word document. In File Explorer, right click on the PDF file – Open With – Word.īefore the file is opened, Word shows this dialog. In Word – File – Open and choose the PDF file.
The original PDF file is not altered in any way. Now all features of Word can be used to do editing, formatting etc. It tries to understand what the PDF document is and converts it into an editable copy. If you do have Adobe Acrobat you don’t need this feature. Tables are never pasted, formatting goes haywire, alignment and columns are disturbed… you know the story. We try to copy paste into Word but that never works as expected.
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