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Copying an Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf) into a MS Word document
     
  The complete Adobe Acrobat software package with Acrobat Exchange, Acrobat Distiller, and other components, allows you to open a .pdf file and make a copy of it to save in MS Word.

1. Open Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Program menu.

2. Open the Adobe Acrobat file you saved to disk.

3. Click Edit in menu bar.

4. Click Copy file to clipboard

5. Open MS Word

6. Click Edit in menu bar

7. Click Paste (this copies the entire file to the Windows system Clipboard)

8. Click Save As in menu bar to save it as a Word document

Warning: Special formatting and tables will be lost. Here are directions to turn text into a table in MS Word:

1. Highlight the text that should be in a table

2. Click Table

3. Click Insert table and the highlighted text will appear in a table.
Table may not be exactly as original.
One can also copy text from a PDF file into word by selecting the Text Select Tool in the Acrobat toolbar. It looks like a T.
 
     
  After you click the Text Select Tool, you’ll be able to highlight text within the PDF file and copy it into your Word document.

Note: The Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free on the Internet, does not have the capability of the full software package. As a result you would need to copy a Adobe format file 1 page at a time and then use the paste operation in MS Word to move 1 page at a time into MS Word format.