Opening and Editing PDF Documents

If you have a PDF document, you can open it in Word (New!). When you open a PDF document, Word asks you to convert it to an editable document. The resulting document is optimized using PDF Reflow (New!) to allow you to edit the text. The original graphics might not look exactly like the original PDF. PDF Reflow also works when you copy content from a PDF document and then paste it into a Word document. PDF Reflow gets the best results when the PDF was originally created in a Word document or another word-processing program. If PDF Reflow cannot detect an element, Word converts a text element to plain text or a text box, or a chart or diagram to points on a grid or a bitmap image. PDF documents appear in Read ...

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