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m2ramos
Inspiring
March 23, 2020
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Converting Word table to PDF, cell content not wrapping

  • March 23, 2020
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I have a table in Word that I am converting to PDF using the PDFMaker plugin.  In Word, the content of the cell wraps perfectly fine and even increases the size of the cell to fit the content.  When I convert to PDF, the whole table seems to adopt a fixed column and row size and any cells that have content larger than that fixed cell size is omitted.  Is there any way to preserve the contents of each cell and just have PDFMaker convert the Word table as is without rearranging the row/column sizes?

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AkanchhaS8194121
AkanchhaS8194121
Legend
March 24, 2020

Hey there,

 

thanks for reaching out. While converting a word document to PDF, do you use PDF Maker plugin or Acrobat PDF Maker plugin? Which means, do you just "Save as PDF" or "Save as Adobe PDF"? 

 

  • Create a PDF file using Save as Adobe PDF option. Or Open Acrobat DC and use "Create PDF" Tool. Does it have the same format? 
  • Would it be possible to share the screenshot of the same?

 

Thanks,

Akanchha

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m2ramosAuthor
Inspiring
March 24, 2020

I was using the Acrobat Tab in the ribbon of Word.  The Create PDF button in the ribbon.  With that being said, I figured it out just a few minutes ago.  Even though Word was wrapping the text correctly in every cell prior to the PDF creation, I had to set all the cells to wrap in Excel before transferring to Word.  Once the cells were marked to wrap text in Excel and then transferred to Word, creating the PDF resulted in a proper view of the table.

If you're wondering why I'm tranferring to Word, it's to clean the =Hyperlink formulas to relative links because if you convert to PDF in Excel directly, the PDF doesn't convert the hyperlinks properly (which link to files in a folder, not a URL).

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