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vero crafts and fun
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November 3, 2014
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I cannot edit a converted Word document

  • November 3, 2014
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After I downloade a doument that was emailed to me......and converted it from PDF to Word .......can I edit that document ?

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    Inspiring
    November 3, 2014

    Hi vero crafts and fun,

    For starters, please try triple-clicking in the text block that you want to edit. 

    If that doesn't work, we'd need to take a closer look at how the PDF was created. For example, was it created from a scanned document/ When ExportPDF converts a PDF document to Word format, it performs OCR (optical character recognition) by default. So, even if that original PDF was created from a scanned document and contained image text, ExportPDF would have converted that text to editable text during the conversion process.

    Let me know if triple-clicking did the trick. If not, we'll take a closer look at your file.


    Best,

    Sara

    vero crafts and fun
    Participant
    November 3, 2014

    the PDF was an email to my home computer from my office...it is a list of

    names and addresses for labels.

    I did click 3 times on one of the labels and nothing happened

    In a message dated 11/3/2014 10:42:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

    forums_noreply@adobe.com writes:

    I just signed on to Adobe export PDF.....now I cannot edit the

    doument.....help !

    created by Sara.Forsberg (https://forums.adobe.com/people/Sara.Forsberg)

    in Adobe Acrobat.com Services - View the full discussion

    (https://forums.adobe.com/message/6894664#6894664)