Viewing and editing PDF documents in Word

One of the great benefits of PDF documents is that they are not editable by default, however sometimes we just want to make a quick edit to the document. Usually this would involve going back to the original document, editing it and then saving it as a PDF document.

Now you can directly open & edit PDF documents in Word.

So how does is work?

This is all possible because of the new feature PDFReflow. PDFReflow creates a copy of the PDF document and converts it to a Word document which you can then edit and make the changes you need to.

Once you've finished editing you can save it as a Word document or save it as a PDF document again.

Note: the conversions are not always perfect, especially if you have lots of graphical elements such as photos or complex layout design

How do I open the PDF in Word?

• Firstly you will need to open Word
• Click on File, then select Open

• Locate the PDF you want to open & double click to open it
• You will then get a pop up as seen as below

• Once you click ok it will start to convert your PDF to a editable Word document Note: remember this may not convert perfectly
• Below is a comparison of the original PDF and the converted document

• Create any changes you need to the document
• Finally save your changes

You can use CTRL + S to save it however this will keep it as a Word document. To save as a PDF document you can do this two ways.

 1. Use the Save As function

• Click on File
• Click Save as
• Browse to where you want to save the PDF
• Change the Save as type to PDF from the drop down selection

• Finally click Save

 2. Print to CutePDFWriter

If you have Cute PDF installed on your computer you can use it to save the PDF file

• Click on File
• Click Print
• Click on the box below the Printer title
• Select CutePDF from the list of printers

• Click Print
• Browse to where you want to save the PDF
• Finally Click Save