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Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont
allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP! |
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Word cannot open PDF files, and there is no way to convert a fillable PDF
form to Word format, so what in fact have you done here? If you have extracted the text from the form with some form of OCR conversion software, then you will need to add form fields from the forms toolbar/developer tab to make a new fillable form. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP! |
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I saved the file as a word doc no conversion. But I'm not able to use all
options on developer tab. Is there a reason why or any way to fix it? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word cannot open PDF files, and there is no way to convert a fillable PDF form to Word format, so what in fact have you done here? If you have extracted the text from the form with some form of OCR conversion software, then you will need to add form fields from the forms toolbar/developer tab to make a new fillable form. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP! |
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What do you mean by 'you saved as a word doc no conversion'? PDF is a
*graphical* format. There is always a conversion involved if you want to open it in Word. Acrobat (the full version) offers an option to save PDF as a Word document, but whether it can render that document as editable rather depends on how the PDF was created. If you have an *editable* Word document then the form fields on the Developer tab should be available. If they are not, the probabilty is that the Word 'document' contains only a graphic and so you would need OCR software to render it to Word document format. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: I saved the file as a word doc no conversion. But I'm not able to use all options on developer tab. Is there a reason why or any way to fix it? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word cannot open PDF files, and there is no way to convert a fillable PDF form to Word format, so what in fact have you done here? If you have extracted the text from the form with some form of OCR conversion software, then you will need to add form fields from the forms toolbar/developer tab to make a new fillable form. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP! |
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I did with and without conversion and still the same result. Cant use all
developer tab for some reason. "Graham Mayor" wrote: What do you mean by 'you saved as a word doc no conversion'? PDF is a *graphical* format. There is always a conversion involved if you want to open it in Word. Acrobat (the full version) offers an option to save PDF as a Word document, but whether it can render that document as editable rather depends on how the PDF was created. If you have an *editable* Word document then the form fields on the Developer tab should be available. If they are not, the probabilty is that the Word 'document' contains only a graphic and so you would need OCR software to render it to Word document format. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: I saved the file as a word doc no conversion. But I'm not able to use all options on developer tab. Is there a reason why or any way to fix it? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word cannot open PDF files, and there is no way to convert a fillable PDF form to Word format, so what in fact have you done here? If you have extracted the text from the form with some form of OCR conversion software, then you will need to add form fields from the forms toolbar/developer tab to make a new fillable form. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP! |
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What do _you_ mean by "conversion"?
On Sep 20, 11:05*am, Chris wrote: I did with and without conversion and still the same result. Cant use all developer tab for some reason. "Graham Mayor" wrote: What do you mean by 'you saved as a word doc no conversion'? PDF is a *graphical* format. There is always a conversion involved if you want to open it in Word. Acrobat (the full version) offers an option to save PDF as a Word document, but whether it can render that document as editable rather depends on how the PDF was created. If you have an *editable* Word document then the form fields on the Developer tab should be available. If they are not, the probabilty is that the Word 'document' contains only a graphic and so you would need OCR software to render it to Word document format. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: I saved the file as a word doc no conversion. But I'm not able to use all options on developer tab. Is there a reason why or any way to fix it? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word cannot open PDF files, and there is no way to convert a fillable PDF form to Word format, so what in fact have you done here? If you have extracted the text from the form with some form of OCR conversion software, then you will need to add form fields from the forms toolbar/developer tab to make a new fillable form. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP!- |
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Conversion software to change a PDF document into a word document
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote: What do _you_ mean by "conversion"? On Sep 20, 11:05 am, Chris wrote: I did with and without conversion and still the same result. Cant use all developer tab for some reason. "Graham Mayor" wrote: What do you mean by 'you saved as a word doc no conversion'? PDF is a *graphical* format. There is always a conversion involved if you want to open it in Word. Acrobat (the full version) offers an option to save PDF as a Word document, but whether it can render that document as editable rather depends on how the PDF was created. If you have an *editable* Word document then the form fields on the Developer tab should be available. If they are not, the probabilty is that the Word 'document' contains only a graphic and so you would need OCR software to render it to Word document format. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: I saved the file as a word doc no conversion. But I'm not able to use all options on developer tab. Is there a reason why or any way to fix it? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word cannot open PDF files, and there is no way to convert a fillable PDF form to Word format, so what in fact have you done here? If you have extracted the text from the form with some form of OCR conversion software, then you will need to add form fields from the forms toolbar/developer tab to make a new fillable form. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP!- |
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If you would _tell_ Graham and his colleagues _what_ software you
used, they _might_ be able to help you. But that raises another question: how did you save a pdf as a Word document "without conversion"? On Sep 20, 1:46*pm, Chris wrote: Conversion software to change a PDF document into a word document "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: What do _you_ mean by "conversion"? On Sep 20, 11:05 am, Chris wrote: I did with and without conversion and still the same result. Cant use all developer tab for some reason. "Graham Mayor" wrote: What do you mean by 'you saved as a word doc no conversion'? PDF is a *graphical* format. There is always a conversion involved if you want to open it in Word. Acrobat (the full version) offers an option to save PDF as a Word document, but whether it can render that document as editable rather depends on how the PDF was created. If you have an *editable* Word document then the form fields on the Developer tab should be available. If they are not, the probabilty is that the Word 'document' contains only a graphic and so you would need OCR software to render it to Word document format.. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: I saved the file as a word doc no conversion. But I'm not able to use all options on developer tab. Is there a reason why or any way to fix it? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word cannot open PDF files, and there is no way to convert a fillable PDF form to Word format, so what in fact have you done here? If you have extracted the text from the form with some form of OCR conversion software, then you will need to add form fields from the forms toolbar/developer tab to make a new fillable form. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org Chris wrote: Have a form created in PDF and saved in word but cant fill in fields. Wont allow me all options in developer and very difficult to make changes. Is there an automatic option to find fields like pdf? HELP!-- |
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