Office mac 2011 cannot open pdf

I cannot open pdf files in office mac 2011.
Does anyone have any suggestions.

It sounds like you want to be able to modify a PDF in Word.
If that is the case you need a program that will open the PDF and then perform an OCR (Optical Scan Recognition) on it to convert it back to text (PDF is a form of image/graphic file; like a photo taken of how it will print).
Take a look at PDFPen Pro:
http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpenPro/index.html
from Smile Software
They also have a more limited featured version for less money:
http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/index.html

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