Using PDF Text in a Word Doc

Any suggestions on how to take the text from a PDF and use in Word doc

By "opening it in Acrobat" I mean opren the Adobe Acrobat application and then open the PDF file in it (File -> Open -> select your PDF)
If you have the file open in Acrobat then follow the commands I offered in my first response to convert the PDF to a Word file.  YOu can then open the Word file in Word and do what you wish with the contents of it.

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