WD2000: How to Convert Adobe Acrobat Reader (*.pdf) Files

ID: Q212318

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SUMMARY

Microsoft Word does not directly support conversion from Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF is the format in which documents are saved for viewing and exchange via Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Acrobat Exchange for Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

To convert a PDF document from Adobe Acrobat Reader to Microsoft Word, follow these steps:

Open your PDF document into Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows.

Select the content of the current screen image that you want to use in Word by doing one of the following:

To select and copy text, do the following in Adobe Acrobat Reader:

On the Tools menu, click Select Text.

Click and drag the I-beam mouse pointer over the text you want to copy. The text will be selected (highlighted).

To select and copy a graphic, do the following:

On the Tools menu, click Select Graphics.

Click and drag the cross-hair mouse pointer (the cross-hair mouse pointer is a large plus sign [+]) around the picture or graphic you want to copy.

On the Edit menu, click Copy.

In Microsoft Word, click Paste on the Edit menu.

Text pasted from Adobe Acrobat retains its character level formatting (for example, fonts, bold, italic, underline, color, and so on). Text does not retain graphics, paragraph formatting, and other formatting when copied to the Windows Clipboard.

NOTE: If security has been set in a PDF file, you may be unable to select and copy the contents of the PDF document for use in Word.

The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

For information about how to contact Adobe, please query in the Knowledge Base for one or more of the following articles:

Q65416 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

Q60781 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, L-P

Q60782 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, Q-Z

Additional query words: 2.0 2.1 3.0 4.0


Keywords          : kb3rdparty kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: July 15, 1999