Microsoft Office versus Adobe DC

Question

I need to do a test result sheet. First we tought that we should use Adobe DC to do those test result sheets but now that I am having problems editing with Adobe I think that is a better idea to use Excel to do those test result sheets. What do you think about it?

Dov Isaacs · Accepted Answer

Although PDF provides a forms capability with some built-in mathematical capabilities and with some custom JavaScript, you can emulate some aspects of a spreadsheet.

Neither Excel's built-in Save as PDF nor the Acrobat PDFMaker Save as Adobe PDF option even attempt to translate the Excel spreadsheet content into PDF forms since so much of that spreadsheet functionality is not part of PDF forms.

The fact is that if what you want is full spreadsheet functionality to be available to the recipients of your document, send them the Excel spreadsheet or alternatively create a PDF file using Acrobat PDFMaker Save as Adobe PDF and specify the option to attach the original spreadsheet inside the PDF file for use of the recipients who wish to play with numbers.

- Dov

Dov Isaacs · Answer

There is no such product as Adobe DC. Can we assume that you mean Acrobat DC?Acrobat is not a spreadsheet program. PDF is primarily a final form file format. It is not a replacement for a proper source document, whether that be a word processing document, a spreadsheet, a source presentation file (such as PowerPoint), etc. The editing features of Acrobat are best for last minute, simple fixups / touchups as opposed to authoring or doing major content adjustments. Once you have the final version of your source document, PDF is a great means of distributing, displaying, and/or printing that content in its final form. - Dov

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