Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard Question - Converting PDF to word document

Question:  I currently have Adobe Acrobat 8.  I need to convert a PDF to word document.  I know how to do that but the outcome of the word document sometimes varies as to retaining the exact formatting.  How can I retain exact formatting?  Is there something that I'm not doing that I need to be doing in order to retain the formatting.  Also do newer versions (Adobe Acrobat 11 (Standard or Pro?)) do a better job of converting and retaining formatting?

Retaining the exact formatting is not possible in practice or in theory because Word documents are nothing like PDFs. For example, Word will cheerfully reflow text onto new lines or pages, while this will never happen with a PDF.
That said, Adobe keep trying to get closer to what people need. Sometimes this results in complex parts of the file being made into an uneditable graphic or text box.
Bottom line is you can get the basics into Word and then (according to your time, experience, and the abilities of Word) you might be able to reconstruct.
On no account convert official forms to Word.

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