PDF to MicroSoft Word

Any suggestions as to the best/most efficient way to process Acrobat files to Microsoft word with the least amount of work in re-formatting?
We currently have Acrobat 8 (Windows/OS-XP) and would like to know if there are any layered utilities to speed up the process. Line feed/tables layout are obvious problems areas.
Any suggestions anyone can provide is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Christine
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About all you can do in Acrobat is to use the Save As or Export (I think that has been added to AA9) to go to DOC. Reformat issues depend on the way in which the PDF was created. If it was created by PDF Maker with tags and all, then the format should pretty much be maintained. Otherwise, you will be recreating the format. That is why one should not think they can delete the DOC (or other) file once the PDF is created. You always want to retain the originals.
The line feed should not be a problem unless you have done a cut and paste. With the cut and paste, the line feeds seem to be added. It might be they were added with the original creation, in which case there is not much you can do. Within WORD you can do a replace with the special character for FF/LF and go through the document that way (probably the fastest if you can't get around it.

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