Text copied from PDF broken to one-word paragraphs

I have MBP with 10.8.3 and CS5 Acrobat Pro 10.1.7. Whenever I copy&paste text from a PDF created in MS Word 2008 12.0.0. and paste it in InDesign or Mail, there's a line break after every word. Also, when I copy&paste text from a PDF that was created with ID 5.5, the text appears line-broken as per the layout - not as continuous block of copy as it should. The only way I know to get rid of this is to do find/replace in ID (find para marker and replace with space). Is there any fix for this? Thanks!

You may be hoping for too much. The PDF doesn't know about your text flow, there is nothing in a PDF to distinguish a hard and soft return, and there is no clue what is a paragraph or not. (Well sometimes if it is tagged, but it usually isn't).
So Acrobat has no way at all to know what is a continuous block of copy and what is a list of points.
Bottom line: PDF is a lousy way to deliver text for reuse.

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