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Opening and editing PDF documents

Opening and editing PDF documents

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Opening and editing PDF documents

- Not many people realize that here in Microsoft Word, even dating back to Word 2013 for example, we could open up PDF files right in Word, make changes to them, and save it back to PDF. That's what we're going to do in this movie, so as you can see I've closed everything up. We're going to go to File, select Open and Browse to the Chapter1 folder of your Exercise Files. In Chapter1, you'll see something called LandonHotel_press_release. It's a PDF file, which means it's read-only, stands for Portable Document Format, and when we select it we can click Open and we're going to see a message. Word is about to convert your PDF file to a document format that can be edited in Word. So, it could take awhile depending on the length of the document and if it's full of graphics, for example. In our case, this is a very short text-based document so when we click OK, it takes just a second to open up the file here in Word. Now it's a Word document, like any other Word document, but we can go in…

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