Microsoft offers a short tutorial, with video, on how to use Word 2013, 2016 or Office 365 to open a PDF in Word: Edit PDF content in Word
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The version of Word installed on Mac devices is not able to perform this type of conversion. Please look to CloudPC PDF to Word Conversion for instructions on using CloudPC when you have a Mac. |
- Open Word
- Go to File > Open
- Browse for the PDF file
- Open
- Word will tell you it is going to convert your PDF to an editable Word document. Note, it really will take a while! Click OK.
- If you see the prompt to Enable editing, click it and again say OK when the "Word will convert" box pops up
- Wait for the file to convert
- File > Save As > make sure it's set to .docx > Save
Things to Know
As Microsoft points out, "The conversion works best with documents that are mostly text."
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