Adobe Reader/Preview pdf-to-Word cut and paste problems...

Hi,
I often cut and paste from pdfs of documents where the text is in two columns, to Word documents...and without fail, I get a jumbled-up mix of BOTH columns of text that I have to mess with, deleting bits I don't want, squishing-up the text I do, etc...
What am I doing wrong, and is there anything I can do to stop this happening?!
Thanks very much for any advice.

If you are using Adobe Reader to open the pdf then the selection tool should highlight what you are copying and pasting. Unfortunetley sometimes with double row columns you are forced to copy parts of text that you don't want.

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