Thursday, May 20, 2010

How to put PDF tables into MS Word?

I have a lengthy pdf of some survey results that are heavily formatted. Is there any way I can move it into a word document without losing the formatting? Is there a way to just make it into an image I can put into Word?

How to put PDF tables into MS Word?
You need Adobe Pro first of all, with that, open up your PDF then save as TIFF. Next, open the TIFF file back up in Adobe Pro and hit Advanced %26gt; Export All Images. Finally, drag and drop each image into your Word document.
Reply:Try to do a screen shot of it by having the PDF open with the full table in view and hitting Alt + Print Screen on the keyboard. Then pasting it into a image processing application like MS Paint, cropping the image to remove the borders and anything else you've captured you don't want, saving it as an image and inserting the image to your word document.





The only other thing that might work is if you had Adobe Acrobat Professional, then you may be able to use Adobe Designer to enter the PDF editing mode, and copy the table from there and pasting it into word. I'm not sure if that will work though, and Acrobat Professional is expensive.


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