I have a pdf created using Adobe DC. I copy formatted text (bold) into notepad and the text repeats multiple times. The pdf was created using Word 2013. How can I get it to only paste the text once?

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August 3, 2016
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I have a PDF created using Adobe DC. I copy formatted text (bold) from the PDF into notepad and the text repeats multiple times. The pdf was created using Word 2013. How can I get it to only paste the text once?

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kglad

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i don't understand. how many different pdfs are relevant to this discussion?

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susanhmaddiedog1Author

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I have one pdf. I need to copy formatted (bold) text out of it and paste it into notepad or textpad. When I do that, the text repeats itself over and over again. Is there a way to get it to only copy once.

The attached screen shot shows what I’m talking about. I copied the one word SIGNIN from the pdf and pasted it into TextPad and got this:

kglad

Community Expert

i don't see a screenshot and i don't see that problem when copying text with formatting from acrobat dc and pasting into notepad. i don't know if textpad behaves differently.

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