[smackless]

Need step by step instructions on how to convert a word document into a PDF
and then the the reverse. Do you need a third-party software to perform this
task? If so what is the best one.

Thanks

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Sounds like you need Adobe Acrobat. Visit Adobe's site for more information.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"smackless" wrote in message
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Need step by step instructions on how to convert a word document into a
PDF
and then the the reverse. Do you need a third-party software to perform
this
task? If so what is the best one.

Thanks

[Graham Mayor]

You need third party software to convert a document to PDF. It works like a
printer driver to convert the document to a graphical format. Reversing the
process is intentionally difficult. Adobe Acrobat *may* be able to do it,
otherwise you would need OCR software capable of handling PDF or print the
document and scan it to PDF. There are utilities that will convert PDF with
some measure of success, but none will produce an exact copy of the original
document.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


smackless wrote:
Need step by step instructions on how to convert a word document into
a PDF and then the the reverse. Do you need a third-party software
to perform this task? If so what is the best one.

Thanks

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smackless wrote:
Need step by step instructions on how to convert a word document into a PDF
and then the the reverse. Do you need a third-party software to perform this
task? If so what is the best one.

Thanks

I have PaperPort. It costs less than Adobe.

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

PaperPort does .pdf and back to .doc? Which program does that?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




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smackless wrote:
Need step by step instructions on how to convert a word document into a
PDF
and then the the reverse. Do you need a third-party software to perform
this
task? If so what is the best one.

Thanks

I have PaperPort. It costs less than Adobe.

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi JoAnn:

Oh! Nice pick-up ... "And reverse" :-)

The LATEST version of Adobe Acrobat will do a bi-directional save as PDF and
back to Word Document. But only if you embed the original Word document
into the PDF.

People need to be aware that the PDF format does not store enough
information to make a Word document. Once you have saved to PDF, the
information it takes to create a Word document has been lost.

Adobe gets around this by allowing you to include a copy of the Word
document inside the PDF.


Cheers

On 7/8/06 12:20 AM, in article ,
"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

PaperPort does .pdf and back to .doc? Which program does that?

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[DeanH]

You need to purchase a third party software, either from Adobe Acrobat itself
or another, I have used JawsPDF in the pass with good results. Now I use
Acrobat, because of the functionality it gives.

To convert back to Word, I use SolidConverter which gives reasonable
results, so long as you are not after Word perfect document, but it is good
enough to be able to extract the text/images.

Best of luck
DeanH

"smackless" wrote:

Need step by step instructions on how to convert a word document into a PDF
and then the the reverse. Do you need a third-party software to perform this
task? If so what is the best one.

Thanks

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I use Acrobat but I also have ScanSoft's PDF Converter. It's not too bad.
Not perfect but I don't think I've ever seen any sort of conversion program
that is perfect. The nice thing about that program is that it's not
expensive. Less than $50 I think.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




"DeanH" wrote in message
...
You need to purchase a third party software, either from Adobe Acrobat
itself
or another, I have used JawsPDF in the pass with good results. Now I use
Acrobat, because of the functionality it gives.

To convert back to Word, I use SolidConverter which gives reasonable
results, so long as you are not after Word perfect document, but it is
good
enough to be able to extract the text/images.

Best of luck
DeanH

"smackless" wrote:

Need step by step instructions on how to convert a word document into a
PDF
and then the the reverse. Do you need a third-party software to perform
this
task? If so what is the best one.

Thanks