Cannot Export from Acrobat to Word

I have Acrobat Pro version 8.1.3 and Word 2007.  There is a very prominent Icon right on the top toolbar that tells me I can Export to Word.  However, I cannot.  I get results that either strip all formatting away from the Text or yield strange results.  I have also tried converting to word via .rtf and .txt.
After Exporting to .doc from Acrobat, and opening Word, instead of recognizing the document as a Word-97 (.doc), Word offers to convert the .doc from an .rtf!  What is wrong here?  It would appear that the conversion from PDF to Word-97 is not being done correctly.  I have read many posts similar to mine, but I have not garnered any resolutions to the problem!  Is PDF a read-only format?
Forgive me, but I am unclear as to what I would use the full version of Acrobat for if not to export the document into an editable form.   PDF documents come from all over the place, and it would be nice to see the full Acrobat Pro do what it promises --- I need to edit PDF's just about every day!  If Acrobat cannot do this conversion, I'll need to spend $180.00 on upgrading my OCR program to do the job.
Another Thought:  (In case this is an Adobe vs Microsoft issue):  Would it be easier to convert the PDF into InDesign?  I just looked at this. and do not see a menu option to import PDF files in InDesign.  My strong preference would be to get the PDF into a fully editable form in Word.
Additional info:  One report of this type problem advised use of Acrobat conversion settings to change some things -- that will not work for me as the only setting I have is whether to include comments or not!  Another problem-like-this-solver suggested "embedding the fonts" into the .pdf -- this will not work either as my system has lots of Open Source fonts, but my .pdf has, you guessed it, all True Type fonts.  All of my software and Vista-64 OS are up-to-date.  Yes, the PDF is in text form, albeit using True-Type fonts -- so no, the "Advanced Editing tool" does not work either -- but offers to do one line at a time -- I have a 10-page document!
Please help!!!!  Suggestions???  Thanks!
Thom
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The ability to go backwards depends on the way in which the PDF was created. Generally, going to WORD is marginal as you have found out. If the tags were created with the PDF, then the formatting and such can often be gotten back due to the tags. Looks like you have a basic PDF. In terms of going backwards, that was never the main purpose of Acrobat (it is always recommended that you retain an original copy of your documents to work with). Acrobat was designed to produce a Portable Document Format (PDF) that could be read on basically any platform and look identical. As long as the fonts are embedded and such, that is usually what exists. All of the other items are add-ons to provide additional features. How well these features work depends on the information available in the PDF.
At times, I have found I can get a reasonable DOC file by saving as a HTML file and opening the HTML file in WORD. Not the cleanest way, but it works at times. Some documents can be saved directly to DOC files and look great, others are pretty bad. However, you are still better off in that you don't have to start typing from scratch. It is a lot easier to add some formatting that it is to start over.

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