Issues exporting pdf (acrobat 9 Pro) to docx (MS Word 2007)

recently upgraded to 9 Pro (32bit) - ok I'll admit I'm a little slow on the upgrade - in an XP Pro SP3 (32bit) OS
I created a PDF from a web page: Create from web page>HTML. I then tried to export to docx. I ended up with a mishmash of word boxes overlaying each other (EXPORT > Word Document > Settings > Retain Page Layout > OK etc. )
I repeated this with a "normal" pdf - not one created from a web page but with the same result.
Any ideas??

A PDF may not convert wll to DOC if the sense that you are using it since there is not any layout info in the PDF. You may likely have a bunch of boxes and such that are then converting to WORD in a way you do not like. There is even a question as to what the default page size is of the PDF that you are using.
Have you tried printing to the Adobe PDF printer from your browser? This process will not include the links and such, but if you goal is to convert to DOC then those would not go anyway.

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