Re: Importing Multiple Page PDFs into a Word doc

Subject: Re: Importing Multiple Page PDFs into a Word doc
From: "Jay Maechtlen"<techwriter -at- covad -dot- net>
To: "Robert Lauriston"<robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:48:35 -0800



Robert Lauriston wrote:
> In Acrobat, change the page display mode to Single Page Continuous.
>
> Select and copy.
>
> In OpenOffice Writer, Paste Special and choose RTF.
>
> Save as .doc.
>
> Open in Word.
>

Not bad, depending on needs. Formatting is fair, but pagination goes
away and footers are mingled into the pasted text.
Also, tables don't necessarily paste as tables.
Depends on the need, of course.

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