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Export to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Export to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - Adobe Acrobat Tutorial

From the course: Acrobat DC Essential Training

Export to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

- [Instructor] If you need to perform extensive edits to the contents of a PDF, it makes more sense to go back to the application the document was created in, make your changes there, and then export a new PDF. As we've previously seen, Acrobat's page editing tools are really only good for small changes and touch-ups. Of course you don't always have access to the original file that your PDF was generated from. For example, let's say that I needed to make changes to this newsletter, but I don't have the original Word file it was created in. Acrobat has the ability to sort of reverse engineer a document, and export it into other formats, including Microsoft Office formats, like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. To do that, we go to File, Export to, and here I can choose Microsoft Word. Then you can choose to export to the current Word format, which is a .docx file or you can export to the older format, if you need the file…

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