Acrobat to Word problem

[Doriguzzi]

I have read that this can be done BUT ...

I have an ID book of 140 pages and need to translate in to Word. I export it as a PDF and close ID. I then open it in Acrobat and go to export it as a Word document. Unfortunately it fails everytime.

I get the message "The specified file could not be written to. It may be in use."

I have closed everything else on my MAC. Thoughts????

NOTE: The document is totally text.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

Quote: ""I get the message "The specified file could not be written to. It may be in use."

It means that your computer system says that the file is in use by a program on your computer, so it can't override it. Suggestions:

• Try giving the new export-to-word file a new name.
• Restart your computer (to flush out any memory), open the PDF, and export it to Word.

Question: SInce you're starting with an InDesign file, why not export to Word directly from InDesign? By pass Acrobat and PDF entirely.

[Nancy OShea]

See this article.

https://redokun.com/blog/indesign-to-word

If you got this error, “The specified file could not be written to. It may be in use”, try to save the exported file in a different folder. That generally solves the issue.  If you have any other error, try saving the file in a different folder with the Word 97 - 2003 Document format.

Also don't expect 100% perfect results.  Keep your InDesign layout simple and the resulting MS Word document should need only a little re-working.

[nth123]

I am having the same issue but running VBA Excel procedure. A manual process to export file to Word Document does not raise any error. Smooth.

A few days  ago this does not happen. Might it be related to security setting somehow?

[nth123]

A couple of steps will eventually solve the issue for anyone interested :

1/ Make sure that Thumbnail Preview is disabled in Acrobat (https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/enable-pdf-thumbnail-preview-windows-explorer.html)

2/ Make sure that in your Window Explorer, thumbnail preview is also disabled (https://kb.foxitsoftware.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046399271-How-to-disable-the-PDF-thumbnail-preview...)

3/ Enable trusted location for Acrobat (Edit>Preferences> Security (Enhanced))

4/ Enable trusted location for Excel application.

[Aadu259123509slp]

Hi, this did not work. The code runs on my machine but on my client's machine its giving the error of file may be in use. I triedd this on another computer with acrobat pro DC and it works fine. Any idea what else could cause this ?