Its not very elegant but you could try using Microsoft Office Document
Imaging (included in the Office 2003 tools). As you already have this its
worth giving it a try before shelling out on another program.

1. Open the pdf file in Adobe Reader
2. Choose Print from the File menu and set the printer to Microsoft Office
Document Image Writer - you will be asked for a filename and whether you
want to save as MDI or TIF (I don't think the format makes a difference for
this exercise).
3. Open the file you just saved using Microsoft Office Document Imaging
(should be under Office Tools on the Programs menu)
4. Use the OCR button on the toolbar (icon is an eye over a page) - it'll
probably take a couple of minutes for a doc that long - then use the button
to the right which is Output to Word.

There doesn't seem to be much promotion of the Microsoft Office Document
Imaging tool - I came across it by accident but I think it is great - good
for quick and easy scanning (much better than the Epson software my scanner
came with) and the scanned images get indexed MSN Desktop Search so its a
doddle to find files.

Hope this helps

Paul

"John Gregory" wrote in message
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I have a 150 page pdf file of instructions I plan to use as a guide for
self-directed instruction on using a very busy program; Fidelity's Active
Trader Pro. I'd like to be able to convert the thing to a Word 2003
document but can't find anything in Word's Help file that addresses it. It
looks like .pdf isn't an extension that's convertible.

A quick search on the net yields a number of programs that appear to do
this. I have no idea what's the best way - and safest - way to approach
this task (I'm always leery of downloading anything).

Can someone please give me some advice on how to make this conversion to
Word, what outside software I should be looking at if necessary, and any
other way of getting that pdf file into a more manageable form. Something
that would allow comments to be made right on the file as I read it would
also be of possible help.