Copy Table from One PDF to Another

[Jimmity Jamst]

Hi all,

I've spent some time creating a table and adding some text headers in a PDF with Acrobat Pro DC. I want to copy the finished table to another PDF that I'm editing.

The table looks like this in the original PDF:

But if I select the area, then copy and paste to the second PDF, all I get is this...

Any thoughts on what the issue is here / how I get the entire contents to copy? It was quite painstaking to create the table in the first place, so I'd prefer not to have to start from scratch.

Thank you

[try67]

You really should not be doing this kind of thing in a PDF file. It was not meant to be edited in such an extended way.

However, if you use the Edit Text & Images tool you should be able to select the entire table and copy it to another file.

[Jimmity Jamst]

Thanks, but that is exactly what I'm doing :(. I'll take your point though that I probably shouldn't be doing this kind of thing.

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

You could make this again in Word in a few minutes, and convert to PDF. I'd recommend that. Acrobat was never meant to actually make this stuff...

[Jimmity Jamst]

Thanks. My issue is that I have a 'nearly' complete PDF and I just need to insert this table. The table has been handed to me in a Word Doc. So the issue is I just need to somehow insert the table from the word doc, rather than create a new PDF from it. Again though, I take the point that Acrobat is not really meant to do what I'm trying to make it do.