Cannot remove sections breaks in pdf converted to word doc on macbook

Hi Amal,

I came here too hoping for an answer. The issue of Word and PDF documents created by Acrobat's export to RTF / Word feature has persisted for over a decade. 

The Microsoft Support page you referred AdAcrobFan1 to provides instructions for removing 1 section break at a time and points out that removing a section break will apply the document formatting following the (removed) section break to the document text to the section of text before the (removed) section break. 

Given Acrobat inserts a section break on each and every page it creates using the Export PDF to Doc/ RTF tools,  advising customers who are frustrated with Acrobat's long standing bugs / poor design (which this issue is clearly an example of) to remove section breaks one at a time is not remotely helpful. 

If Adobe actually cared about the experience and productivity of the people who use Acrobat / Acrobat Pro it would understand that the predominant reason people want to export a PDF to Word format is so they can edit the document - idseally retaining paragraph numbering and paragraph item / text indending and not so that they end up with a Word doc that (poorly) replicates the page setup and formatting of the original PDF. 

If Adobe Acrobat was developed and maintained so that it met the productivity needs of its customers:  

1) It would not export PDF documents to unusable "doc" format word documents that employ text boses for text in the main body of the document;and 

2) It would provide users with the option to export to RTF or Word doc without the use of page or section breaks - even if that results in text flowing to a subsequent page instead of remaining on the original page per the original PDF. 

3) When copying text (with or without the "retain formatting" option) It would not insert a paragraph character at the end of each line of text copied)

Given Adobe is also the developer of Postscript - the defacto standard for desktop publishing - it beggars belief how these issues can persist for decades and that Adobe can provide such unhelpful and essentially "useless" advice. You may as well advise that the customer retype the document from start, or advise the customer that they try a competitors product such as Google Docs or FoxIt. 

Do you not agree?