PDF - Word??

[Guest]

Have a family tree which was typed in pdf format. Is there any way I can
change this pdf document to a Microsoft Word document.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Not for free. There are pdf converters. I have ScanSoft's PDF Converter.
I've had mixed results. If it's just a plain old Word doc without a boatload
of "fancy stuff", it's okay. It's miserable with a .pub file.

 

[Jezebel]

That's a consequence of how the original file was created, rather than of
the converter. Acrobat itself makes a pig's breakfast of many non-Word
formats when converted to Word: if the original was structured as a
document, there's really no way to turn it into one automatically.

Not for free. There are pdf converters. I have ScanSoft's PDF Converter.
I've had mixed results. If it's just a plain old Word doc without a
boatload of "fancy stuff", it's okay. It's miserable with a .pub file.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Have a family tree which was typed in pdf format. Is there any way I can
change this pdf document to a Microsoft Word document.

 

[Jezebel]

It can't have been typed in PDF. PDF is an output format. You create the
document in an application (could be anything, but Word is very common), the
*convert* it to PDF for distribution. Go back to whoever created it and ask
what they used. It might well have been created in the Word in the first
place.