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Jamie5FE3
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October 12, 2020
Question

Converting California "legal pleading paper" to Word

  • October 12, 2020
  • 4 replies
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Do you know of a way to cleanly/legibly convert a California court filing from PDF to Word? The line pagination makes a mess of the conversion and the Word document needs a lot of clean up to make it usable.

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    tracy28193346cpaq
    Participant
    February 8, 2024

    Did you figure out a way to do this? It would be a huge time saver to be able to convert PDF on pleading paper to .docx - still on pleading paper!

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      tracy28193346cpaq
      Participant
      February 21, 2024

      Yes really hoping for solution here from Adobe

       

      Amal.
      Community Manager
      Amal.Community Manager
      Community Manager
      February 22, 2024

      Hi there,

       

      Please try the options 'Retain flowing text' and 'Retain Page layout' as shown in the screenshot below and see if that works:

       

       

      Let us know how it goes.

       

      ~Amal

       

       

      christopherb70298142
      christopherb70298142
      Participant
      January 15, 2022

      DocStyle is the only way I know to convert it without having to go take out all the line numbers.  It's not perfect, you may have to still make a few edits but if you want to save time (and money), it's worth a try.

      LinSims
      Community Expert
      LinSimsCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      October 12, 2020

      Let me move this to the Acrobat forum for you, where I hope you'll find a useful answer for your question.

      The Using the Community forum is for help in using the Adobe Support Community forums, not for help with specific programs. Product questions should be posted in the associated product community.

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      tracy28193346cpaq
      Participant
      February 8, 2024

      I have the same issue - how to convert PDF on pleading paper (with numbers 1-28 on left side) to word document docx. Just "convert" creates really messy formatting

      Amal.
      Community Manager
      Amal.Community Manager
      Community Manager
      February 8, 2024

      Hi there 
       
      Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that
       
      Is this an issue with a particular PDF file or with all the PDFs? Please try with a different PDF file and check. If the file is stored on a shared network/drive please download it to your computer locally and then try again.
       
      What is the version of the Acrobat DC you are using? To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the recent version 23.08.20470 installed. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.
       
      Also try to repair the installation from the help menu (Win Only) and see if that works.

       

      Let us know how it goes.

       

      ~Amal

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      Jamie5FE3Author
      Participant
      October 12, 2020

      I mean line numbering, not pagination.

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