Re: How to import acrobat PDF files into Word, please?

OK, have a solution of sorts, but still some problems:

Solution requires opening the PDF file in Acrobat reader, and printing to
Fax driver, which permits saving the output as a BMP file.
Then in Word, import the BMP file as a picture. Reduce all page margins to
zero and drag the picture to maximise its size within the page, preserving
aspect ratio.
I lose the colours, but I expect there is a way around that by configuring
the fax driver, and if not I can live with it.

Remaining problem seems to be in manipulating the text boxes so that they
sit over the input fields accurately. There are two problems:

1) In resizing and moving the text boxes, there seems to be some sort of
"snap-to-grid" option enabled and I cannot work out how to disable it so as
to fine-tune the positioning of the text boxes (the implied "grid" is too
widely spaced).

2) When I try to drag the text box around the page it leaps about to
unpredictable locations that have no apparent relationship to where I move
the mouse. I can overcome it by using the bar at the extreme left of the
screen to drag the top and bottom of the text box, but it is not an ideal
solution.

The whole thing seems unwieldy, and I guess I am doing something wrong. It
all looked to go pearshaped when I first created a text box and it prompted
me to do it in a canvass that was outside the location of the picture image.

"Jack ***" <mind-the-gap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OL1QmF1ZFHA.2916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I regularly encounter forms that are available in PDF format.
Unhelpfully,
> they have not been created with editable input fields (where such fields
> would be expected). I have in the past printed hard copies of the forms
and
> filled them in manually. I am now advised that a way to complete them
> on-screen would be to import the files into a Word document, then create
> blank text boxes located over the input fields and bring the text boxes
> permanently to the front. I fall at the first hurdle, however, because I
> cannot find a way to import the PDF document into a Word file. Help,
> please?
>
> Office XP 2002
>
> Thanks
>
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> Return email address is not as DEEP as it appears
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