[Catherine]

This might not be the right forum for this question, and if so, my apologies.
I can select text in the pdf file, but it "clipboards" into one cell in a
Word table.

Thank you.

[Graham Mayor]

The short answer is no. A PDF file is a graphical format. If you have the
full version of Acrobat you *may* be able to extract it, but the only sure
solution is to use OCR software such as Finereader - and even then it
probably won't be an exact facsimile.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Catherine wrote:
This might not be the right forum for this question, and if so, my
apologies. I can select text in the pdf file, but it "clipboards"
into one cell in a Word table.

Thank you.

[Catherine]

Thank you. Do you know if Finereader will extract it enough to put it into
Excel cells? I'm trying to get away from massive cutting and pasting, cell
by cell.

Catherine


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The short answer is no. A PDF file is a graphical format. If you have the
full version of Acrobat you *may* be able to extract it, but the only sure
solution is to use OCR software such as Finereader - and even then it
probably won't be an exact facsimile.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Catherine wrote:
This might not be the right forum for this question, and if so, my
apologies. I can select text in the pdf file, but it "clipboards"
into one cell in a Word table.

Thank you.

[Graham Mayor]

Not having seem the file I cannot say, but Finereader will convert tables
and retain their format -ish.
or
You may be able to use the convert text to table option in Word to make
recreate the table format from your text? The principle is essentially that
at http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm
--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Catherine wrote:
Thank you. Do you know if Finereader will extract it enough to put
it into Excel cells? I'm trying to get away from massive cutting and
pasting, cell by cell.

Catherine


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The short answer is no. A PDF file is a graphical format. If you
have the full version of Acrobat you *may* be able to extract it,
but the only sure solution is to use OCR software such as Finereader
- and even then it probably won't be an exact facsimile.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Catherine wrote:
This might not be the right forum for this question, and if so, my
apologies. I can select text in the pdf file, but it "clipboards"
into one cell in a Word table.

Thank you.

[Catherine]

Thanks so much. I'll try that!

Catherine

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Not having seem the file I cannot say, but Finereader will convert tables
and retain their format -ish.
or
You may be able to use the convert text to table option in Word to make
recreate the table format from your text? The principle is essentially that
at http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm
--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Catherine wrote:
Thank you. Do you know if Finereader will extract it enough to put
it into Excel cells? I'm trying to get away from massive cutting and
pasting, cell by cell.

Catherine


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The short answer is no. A PDF file is a graphical format. If you
have the full version of Acrobat you *may* be able to extract it,
but the only sure solution is to use OCR software such as Finereader
- and even then it probably won't be an exact facsimile.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Catherine wrote:
This might not be the right forum for this question, and if so, my
apologies. I can select text in the pdf file, but it "clipboards"
into one cell in a Word table.

Thank you.