Selecting Text in Acrobat 9 Pro

Hello, we have just discovered that
in some documents that I have converted from Word into a PDF are having problems with selecting text.  When we go to select text,
rather than just selecting the text I am highlighting, it is only selecting portions as though they are in columns.  I went back to the original Word document and cleared all the formatting (there are no columns in this document...it's just paragraphs), then formated the text size and style and saved it to a PDF, but am still having the same problem.  I have checked older PDF documents which started out the same way in Word, and some have this problem, but some work fine and let me select only a few words or sentences at a time.  But the rest are trying to select words above and below the text I am trying to select.  Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,
You might want to look at the "touch up reading order" in advanced, accessibility options. The document will be tagged and you will see the structure of the page. I suspect that it has formatted the text into columns - you can use this tool to clear the page structure and reformat to make the whole page just text reading from left to right.
BR
John

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