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JoAnn Paules JoAnn Paules is offline
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Default HELP- I can't edit the pfd that was converted to word

Without knowing how you got it from a piece of paper to an electronic file,
I would have to guess it was some funky software that put your text inside
text boxes. You can try selecting everything and clearing the format but I'm
not sure if it will work. I do know that it will strip it back to plain
text. (I'd start over again with different OCR software.)

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"Windy Rain" Windy wrote in message
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Is there anyway to get the document I scanned and copied as a pdf that was
converted into word to not have boxes. Everything is boxed and this
doesn't
allow me to simply make changes. When I make changes it changes other
places
and soon stuff farther down the page is on top of the stuff I'm trying to
edit.

VERY frustrating- not like my old word program.
I want to get rid of the boxes and just edit.

Is there any way to do this?