Originally Posted by jeannedb

If you open it up in Adobe Acrobat, does the text tool work - can you highlight text? If not, it's possible that the original text document was exported or converted as an "image" to .pdf, rather than text and therefore won't transfer back to text.

Yes, I believe you're absolutely correct about that. The material is original to the client who wants me to format it and it is about 125 typed pages. Cut and paste would take too much time. I'll check back to see if anyone else uses a reliable program, otherwise I guess I have to buy Nuance's PDF Converter again.