Using text from part of Acrobat document

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Robin Chapple - 28 Oct 2003 09:31 GMT

I have a 400 page PDF file and I need to select 21 pages and copy them
to a WORD document.

I have a full version of Acrobat 4

I have failed to copy multiple pages.

What have I missed?

Thanks,

Robin Chapple

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Mike Williams [MVP] - 28 Oct 2003 10:39 GMT

> I have a 400 page PDF file and I need to select 21 pages and copy them
> to a WORD document.
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>
> What have I missed?

You may have missed that this a Word newsgroup and not an Acrobat newsgroup

:-)

Try http://groups.google.com/groups?group=adobe.acrobat.windows

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DocA - 28 Oct 2003 10:48 GMT

Although Mike William's answer was perfect (:-) ) you could also try setting
the View as Continuous before selecting the text.

Adrian

> I have a 400 page PDF file and I need to select 21 pages and copy them
> to a WORD document.
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> Robin Chapple

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Larry - 28 Oct 2003 19:04 GMT

I've always wondered how I could copy text from Adobe into Word and not
lose the paragraph marks. When I copy into Word, it ends up as one
continuous block of text without paragraph breaks.

That's a Word question, sort of. :-)

Larry

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Mike Williams [MVP] - 28 Oct 2003 22:07 GMT

> I've always wondered how I could copy text from Adobe into Word and
> not lose the paragraph marks. When I copy into Word, it ends up as
> one continuous block of text without paragraph breaks.
>
> That's a Word question, sort of. :-)

It's going to depend on how Acrobat formats the text when it puts it onto
the clipboard.

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Larry - 28 Oct 2003 23:05 GMT

Oh, I see.

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Larry - 31 Oct 2003 16:33 GMT

The question is, HOW do I copy text in Adobe so that it keeps its
paragraph marks when I paste it into Word?

Larry

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Mike Williams [MVP] - 31 Oct 2003 23:20 GMT

> The question is, HOW do I copy text in Adobe so that it keeps its
> paragraph marks when I paste it into Word?

That actually presupposes Acrobat has paragraph marks in the text that it
puts on the clipboard. PDFs aren't reflowable so there is no need for them
to retain that sort of metadata. It would have to be re-inferred from
context.

I would head over to the Adobes forum to ask further.

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