Converting a PDF to DOC.  Formatting is lost.  Help!

Hi all,
I have a PDF file that I need to convert to a DOC. I have tried "exporting" it and simply "save as". It works, but all the formatting disappears. It's a one-page document, but it has a lot of form fields requiring filling in by pen. Basically, a lot of boxes... I can upload the PDF file to the web if someone needs to look at it, but the bottom line is that I just need to know how to turn this into a DOC file, but leave it exactly the way it is.
I am using Acrobat Pro 8.1.3. Thanks in advance for any help!
Chris

The problem is that the Acrobat format is substantially different from WORD and the conversion back is far from trivial and not what Acrobat was designed for. If the tags are included, you can often get pretty good results since they explain the structure to AA. I have had limited success in the past by saving to a HTML document and opening that in WORD. The results also varied with the HTML version used.

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    Regards
    Appana

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