Saving PDF as a Word doc.

Question

Hey guys...
when i went to save my PDF i got in an email, to a word doc, everything seemed fine.
once i opened the word doc in in microsoft word, it seemed to open it as a JPEG or something like a clip-art.
i need to be able to edit the text, take some words out, add some words, and then save that as either a word doc or return it to a PDF...
any help would be greatly appreciated, as i am at work, and never have had this happen, although i am fairly new to Acrobat Professional.
thanks.

Answer 1

The "boxes" are "frames" which are a facility of MS Word that the application uses to provide a semblance of logical hierarchy (layout/format) to content from a source that does not have this.
The behavior you describe is typically associated with a PDF that is not a Tagged PDF.
Going to RTF results in the same thing.
Provided an authoring file is mastered with a proper and consistent logical hierarchy (One item, for example, is use of built-in headings - another is use of space above/below settings for Headings and Style vice use of the enter key to provide white space between paragraphs.)
and the authoring application has appropriate tag management for the PDF output then a Tagged PDF can be provided.
Tagged PDF is what provides the ability to export PDF page content to some other application while retaining layout/format/font information and such. Another facility of Tagged PDF is Accessible PDF.
As to editing page content that is bounded by the MS Word "frames" - it can be done with much copy-paste labor.
Then the layout/format work begins.
Really much easier to:
--| Print a hard copy of the PDF
--| Use Save As to a *.txt file
--| Open MS Word using the desired template
--| Open the *.txt file with MS Word
--| Establish the desired Headings and Styles (as dictated by the template)
--| Do the above while referencing the hard copy of the PDF.
Still a time consuming activity; but, not as ugly as trying to deal the content in MS Word "frames".
After developing the "clean" MS Word file use Publisher's File > Import Word Document.
Be well...