Editing a PDF document

OK, so I have a job application downloaded from its source in
PDF format. I'd like to fill it out and save it in, say, a word
document. I see no guidelines for doing this. Uploading it to
Acrobat changes the format completely. Ditto with cut/paste. I'm on
a mac, by the way.
Any help would be appreciated.

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Could you confirm if you could click and start typing inside
some de-marked form fields in your PDF opened inside Acrobat or
that the document is a plain PDF with no form fields? I would
request that you open the PDF inside Acrobat instead of Mac's
preview application (to be sure).
Mostly, I think you would need Acrobat Std/Pro desktop
software to edit a PDF.
If the application form is a plain document (with no form
fields where one could click and start typing into), then you might
wish to try 'automatic field recognition' in Acrobat
(Advanced->Accessibility->Run form field recognition). After
form fields are recognized, you could fill those up. I am on
Acrobat 9 (so menu-items may be a bit different if you are using an
older version).
Generally, PDF is a final form document and you might wish to
export it to .doc/.rtf file format (using File->save as) if you
wish to do heavy editing.

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