Cant change words in my pdf file??

why cant I  change words in my pdf file? it takes me to another page to convert files to word only and the wrong files I might add

As PDF is not a word processing file format applications that work PDF cannot perform word processing activity.
What can be done when using Acrobat XI is the touchup of characters and character strings.
However if the PDF content is the output image of scanner that content is an image / a picture of text.
To work images / pictures you'd use a photo editor (such as Photoshop Elements or such).
You fail to specify what application you are using (Acrobat XI or Adobe Reader XI).
If you have Acrobat you can perform OCR using Acrobat's ClearScan. The output of ClearScan OCR lends itself to doing "touchups".
If you have Acrobat you can export the OCR output to a Word file. Needed / desired cleanup can be done using Word.
If you have Adobe Reader you cannot modify PDF page content, create PDF or export PDF page content.
With this situation you'd want to be subscribed to one of Adobe's online subscription services.
There is ExportPDF and PDF Pack. With either you can go to the service's web site, sign in and then upload the PDF for processing.
If the PDF content needs OCR you'd direct the service to do that.
The output is a Word file. You'd for sure have to cleanup the Word file but that'd be standard word processing.
Be well...

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