Convert from Word Processing to Page Layout?

I received a 26 page document that is in Word Processing mode, but I would like to convert to Page Layout mode.
Is this possible?
Thanks,
Phil

The question is whether the WP version is just main body text or has floating text boxes and image boxes.
If it is just main body text then there is no problem. Just click in the text and Select All (cmd a).
Open a suitable Layout document and paste into a text box, then create links from that to other pages/text boxes.
As fruhulda and Jerrold have said, WP is often the better choice as it generally includes everything that Layout has, but not vice versa. You will need to think through your layout however and construct it to whatever freeform layout you may want.
My personal opinion is that Layout mode is severely challenged.
Peter

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I've just a whole 100 page document in word processing (with lots of pictures). Is there any way that I could change the formating of the document from 'word-document' to 'page-layout' after the fact? Like with ONE click maybe?
Or am I dreaming?
Ben

KOENIG Yvan wrote:
Magnus Lewan wrote:
dwb wrote:
What benefit do you expect to get from this?
I think I can see a potential benefit. If you could easily put your text in full page text frames throughout the entire document, you could then go back and adjust the frame size on certain pages, where the layout requires it.
We may do all these tasks in the WP mode.
Linked text blocks are our friends.
We can do it, yes, but not easily. If you have a hundred pages, you need to connect one hundred text boxes by hand. In InDesign, you basically just shift-click once, and all the one hundred pages are created with linked text boxes in just a few seconds.
It would also be a way to easily create blank pages in the middle of the document.
Insert two page breaks do the trick.
It works, if you do not care where the blank page is. But if you want page 14 to be empty, two page breaks will not do it, as you do not know how the text will float around. In word processing mode, my spontaneous solution would be to insert a white floating picture that covers page 14, and make sure the text wraps around it.
InDesign has simpler solutions for this, but then it costs almost ten times as much as Pages.
In France it costs quite 13 times the price of the complete iWork package !
Indeed.
Adobe's pricing policy is btw a mystery to me. InDesign's French version costs 1030 euro, but the English version is only 910 euro, even if you buy it in France. Do they really have to charge you 120 euro for speaking French?
Put another way, for the same price as one French copy, you can buy the English copy + iWork (in both French and English and a bunch of other languages) + dinner for two.

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Re: Jerry
I'd like to stay in one or the other, but I just like features that are only in one or the other. For example, I like in WP mode that when I get to the end of a page of writing and keep going, a new page appears (with formatting and layout intact on the next). If I'm in PL mode and writing in a text box, it just goes beyond the viewable screen. I also like the ability to select and move around individual pages in PL mode, and that doesn't seem to be available in WP mode (they're all stuck together and move in clumps). But you're right, I'm just going to have to stick with one and figure out some workarounds for some things I like. Since I think I'll be more in WP mode, I'll try to move stuff over from PL.
Re: Peter
Thanks for the advice... it's already helped me try to come up with some ways to fix things. The whole click away thing to give me floating objects has been great! You're right, this does seem like a design flaw, but I suppose Apple can't be all things to all people. Still, I'd like a little more...
Re: Yvan
Hang in there! You're right, Pages is tough when trying to use created projects in other apps! Like you said, I'm working to rebuild the layout. By the way, my PL document was 16 pages, which when transferred to WP mode doubled in size! Sheesh...
Thanks to all—I think I'm going to be able to work through this "issue" after all. I appreciate everyone's help.
Daniel

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Fioli wrote:
I am trying to merge two documents, however I noticed that one is a word processing doc and the other is a layout doc. How do I convert the WP file to layout so I can copy and paste between the two files?
It's easier to go the other way. If you Export the PL doc to Word and open the Word doc in Pages, it will come back as WP. Now you have two WP docs that can be easily combined. The conversion to Word and Back is not likely to be perfect, but it may be better than having to do all that Copying and Pasting.
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This seems like a minor issue, but it's one that could create a lot of frustration for a disabled person using a screenreader to read tabular data in a PDF.
As you know, Acrobat plays nicely with Office apps allowing users to create tagged (structured), accessible PDF documents from MS Office files. I just created a simple docx file with a table (attached), and when I converted it to PDF, I noticed a difference in the tags it creates compared to conversion from Word XP. As you see in the Word file, the table is very basic, except that one of its column headers is split into two cells. This is actually a very common technique for presenting table data. In order to automatically tag the header rows as table header cells <TH> in the PDF, I set the first two rows to "Repeat Header Rows."
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Compare the attached "save-as-adobe-pdf.gif" to"save-as-pdf-xps.gif". Note the empty (but necessary) <TH> tag in the latter image.
Just as a sanity check I had a coworker with Word XP convert the file. Those tags were correct too. So, this must be a problem between Acrobat and Word 2007.
Anyone have other observations on this? I'm going to be leading some accessibility training and right now, it looks like using the Word 2007 conversion feature is the way to go.
I'm using Acrobat 9 Pro.
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Hi Joe,
I sense your frustration. For any organization that has to or wants to engage in providing accessible online information
a serious logistics support issue raises its head. To do PDF, HTML, whatever the proper way (and it can be done)
requires more resources (training, knowledge, hardware, software, changes to work flows, perhaps some more staff).
The is no "work smarter with less & pump out more" in this venue.
Yes, it is helpful (and necessary) to "be one" with the S508 "paragraphs" - WCAG 1.0 - WCAG 20.
However, once anyone begins to provide PDFs that must be "accessible" the first, single most important reference is ISO 32000.
The Adobe PDF References that preceded PDF becoming an ISO Standard are useful; but, ISO 32000 is the standard.
In this documentation there is full discussion of what *must* be done to provide an accessible PDF.
Without a firm understanding of this content, other information tends to bring about a defused opacity of focus which can
contribute to major conceptual errors vis-a-vis accessible PDF.
Leonard Rosenthol's AUC blog entry provides a link to the ISO permitted Adobe version (free) of ISO 32000-1.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/blogs/leonardr/adobe-posts-free-iso-32000
Additional, useful information is found in these two documents:
(1) - PDF Accessibility API Reference (from the Acrobat SDK)
https://acrobat.com/#d=J7bWW4LvNoznh8fHCsfZDg
(2) - Reading PDF Files Through MSAA
https://acrobat.com/#d=uIOvkVTP74kag3bXFJLIeg
About JAWS - Yes, much used. However, not the exlusively used AT application.
If I use Windows Eyes, NVDA, a braille reader, or something else then what?
JAWS *does not* define "it is accessible"...
re: (1)
"Game away and if it ...."
   Consider "Stop before right on red".
   "Compliance" is Stop on Red - Turn Right
   "Intent" (aka usability) is Stop on Red - Look Good for on coming traffic that has the right of way - Yield - when clear, turn right.
But, at least we are not talking about "left on red" 8^)
re: (2)
Just an observation. A defective product that claims to be "whole" can get entities (individuals/businesses) into a sticky wicket.
Putting a high volume of defective products on one's selves only increases the probability that one gets 'busted'.
Quantity replacing Quality just is not a success precursor.
Case in point - Target and the national class action legal action that was taken against it with regards to "accessibility" of online information/services.
Resolved now - see NFB's web site.
re: (3)
Ah, but what would Judge Judy or Judge Marily say?
Efficiency does not preclude providing a "whole" product.
I doubt that there will ever be a seamless "one-click" between products of any of the dominant software houses.
They are intense competitors. That this is the case does not abrogate others from providing a "whole" product, no?
So, if the organization wants the "we do accessible PDF" label then it pays the freight - Adobe Pro, training, appropriate work flows, etc
that permit delivery of PDFs that meet the standards for what a well formed tagged output PDF is (accessible is a sub-set of this).
For PDF there is no other way.
If this cannot be done then there is always HTML as an acceptable method (to some it is the preferred and only "true" way).
However, HTML, done "right" for accessiblilty is just as demanding in its own way.
With each AT version / dot version release, JAWS - Windows Eyes - NVDA & others hone in closer on utilizing PDF ISO Standard 32000.
That means if you deploy "accessible" PDF you need to provide PDF that live to the ISO standard.
Keep in mind that S508's paragraphs began when, effectively, HTML was "it". In software terms that was geologic eons ago.
For contemporary AT to effectively parse PDF, the PDF must be a well formed Tagged PDF having a format/layout that reflects a logical hierarchy.
Creation of all this must start in the authoring environment with the content author.
The post-process PDF output then assures that the PDF elements (tags) are the correct type, have the requisite attributes, etc.
Without this, AT will not be able to provide the end-user effect utilization of the PDF.
So, for AT to properly 'work' the PDF, <TH> elements *must* have the Scope attribute's value defined, Row and Column Span values defined, etc.
Scope, Row Span, Column Span, Table IDs and Headings must be added as part of the post-processing of a PDF using Acrobat Professional.
An alternative is the Netcentric CommonLook plug-in for Acrobat Professional. What it does, Acrobat Pro can do; however, the CommonLook
provides a robust user interface. Downside: at some $1k per seat it is not 'cheap' and it has a *steep* learning curve (Sitka Pass?).
Two table related resources are at this AUC thread (in post 3 and 4). They may be of some usefulness.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=23178
When the "smelly stuff" gets feed into the maw of the fan it's prudent to not be directly down stream, eh.
Consider Target and the situation they put themselves in.
Consider submittal of accessible PDF to fedgov or stategov agencies.
They won't be in front of the fan if usability of the PDFs becomes an issue.
Rather, it will be those submitting. After all the agency did say "accessible".
Better to slow down and do it right or ramp up resource loading to support "schedule" than to stake oneself out as someones "feed" tomorrow, no?
In the final analysis, for PDF, HTML, or any 'format', Accessibility is the Usability + Compliance.
Does it take improvements in professional development/training, adequate hardware/software, *time*?
Yes. But, it all comes down to "where the rubber hits the road" - what tires are you on?
It can be done. I do it one small step at a time every day. Often, that's what it takes.
Deliverables are provided; but, with no mis-labeling and the incremental progress is identified, celebrated and the whole thing continues until
the "road" is completed properly.
Don't want wash outs, bridge collapse or what not tomorrow <g>.
(But then I'm a fan of "Holmes on Homes" which may go a long way towards understanding my point of view when it comes to accessible PDF.)
re: function(){Return ....
Good question.
My guess - either from the cut & paste I initially performed from the application I'd been using to assemble write up and screenshots or something associated with the Adobe Forum application.
It can't be that I'm 'special'; if that was the case one of my occassional lotto quick picks would have been a big $ winner long ago <G>.
fwiw -
You'll find a number of "Accessible PDF" related resources in the threads at the AUC Accessibility Forum.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewforum.php?id=18
Two Accessible PDF related on demand eSeminars are also available.
Look for Duff Johnson's and Charlie Pike's (on page 2) eSeminars.
http://www.acrobatusers.com/learning_center/eseminars_on_demand
Be well...

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I'm pretty new to Acrobat. I'm using Acrobat XI. I need to convert a word document to a PDF file which conforms to certain requirements described by a given .joboptions file. The .joboptions file can be opened by distiller, but as far as I know distiller is not invovled in the conversion (Word to PDF) process. So how can I make sure the converted PDF file meets the requirement described by the .joboptions file?

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Create Bookmarks
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Heading 1 (a Word Heading already present) as the Level 1 Bookmark.
Table of Contents Bookmark (a Word Style I created) as the Level 2 Bookmark.
As a result, the Convert Word Headings to Bookmarks and Convert Styles to Bookmarks were both enabled in the Bookmarks tab.
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