Wow, what timing for me, too! Just yesterday I was at a client's office picking up some work and she asked me did I know of a program that would convert PDF to Word and Excel, that she hadn't been able to find anything! So now I get to e-mail her some of these links, and have something new for myself as well!

Oh, speaking of making sure you have virus protection and so forth, I have avast!, my firewall, Malware Bytes and Super Antispyware! (Avast running in the background all the time--resident scanner--and the others I run once a week. One program can't stop everything. And I also set a restore point right before downloading anything.

Can't wait to try out Nuance myself!

Pam

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hi

I have not really used this program as of yet, but its free and on my laptop. PDFEDIT 0.3.2
Try it and tell me what you think.

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Neasie Jackson

Very cool I've never heard of these options. Often times when doing a research project I need to do just this.

Originally Posted by Office Goddess

Try PDF-to-Word or PDFOnline. Both options are free; one is a download and one is an on-line conversion. And to protect against spyware, etc. I would start by downloading AVAST! free anti-virus.

This forum is amazing...I'm finding answers to questions I forgot I had!!!

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The reason that there may be problems in converting from PDF to Word is because sometimes, the PDF file is generated from an image (scanned in) rather than from computer text (Word document). And this means that the software has to make judgment calls about what the text was originally.

At the risk of going down a rabbit trail, if you're having problems printing a PDF document, print it to Adobe Acrobat rather than to an actual printer. It will generate a PDF file from the PDF file (i.e. it will do some cleanup on it), and you'll likely be able to print the new file.

I use this every week. Love it and it does exactly what I need.

I love this forum. Instead of spending an hour researching the best converter, I had my answer within 5 minutes. My document is already complete. You are all wonderful!

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