Exporting highligted text to Word (Acrobat 8)

I am trying to capture highlighted text from a PDF file and then export them into Word or Excel. I basically have an "index card software" where I capture relevant text, add a few keywords, and then keep them so I can find parts of literature later on.
I just recently got Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.
I found this post about using Summarize Comments to transfer highlighted text.http://forums.adobe.com/thread/619957
A few questions
- can I transfer it to a Word document instead of PDF?
- can it NOT create a separate page for each page of the document? I'd rather all the highlighted text be on as few pages as possible.
That post also talked about a way to go back to previous PDF files highlighted before choosing that setting. However, I could not figure out how to do this method on files that have ALREADY been highlighted, some in previous versions of Acrobat.
Thanks for your help

These AUC threads may be useful re: smaller page count of the summarize comments report —
http://acrobatusers.com/forum/collaboration-commenting/printing-comments-one-page
http://acrobatusers.com/forum/collaboration-commenting/q-how-end-user-extract-marked-text- out-pdf
http://acrobatusers.com/forum/collaboration-commenting/summarize-comments-single-page
"gkaiseril" and "try67" discuss the possibility of using Acrobat JavaScript to condense comment reports' page count.
A summarize comments report can be sent to a Word file.
Create a Batch Sequence that uses the "Summarize Comments" sequence.
Select this sequence for the new Batch Sequence.
In the Edit Sequence dialog, click the Edit button and edit as appropriate.
Back in the Edit Batch Sequence - <the name of the new batch sequence> dialog -
Configure items 2 and 3 as desired.
Click on the Output Options button.
The Output Options dialog has two panes (File Naming and Output Format).
In the Output Format pane open the drop-down menu associated with "Save File(s) As".
Select RTF or Microsoft Word Document.
(n.b., The save as or export to MS Word document actually gives you an RTF but changes the file extension. If you experience problems with the "doc" then try "rtf" and open that with Word.)
You could add in javascript sequence(s) to the Batch Sequence.
You may have to play with it in regards to the output to DOC or RTF.
Be well...

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