Click the drop-down arrow next to Save as type to see the available file types.

Select File > Save As from the menu (I’m using Acrobat Professional 9, but later versions should work similarly).

Open the PDF in Acrobat (NOT Adobe Reader).

And if you have neither full Acrobat nor a screen capture program, then you’ll have difficulty achieving your goal of inserting a PDF file into Word (see Other Options). If you don’t have full Acrobat, but have graphics software that will take screen captures, then use Method 2. If you have full Acrobat (NOT Adobe Reader), then you have a better chance of getting a decent result, than if you don’t (use Method 1).

I’ve documented some methods below - the method YOU use will depend on the software you have.

In essence, you’ll save the PDF pages as images, then insert those images into Word. I tested several options - I was able to get the PDF into the Word document, but not without a fair bit of trial and error. (The links below this post confirm that only one page is inserted - most of the information in these links is from Microsoft Word MVPs, people who have much more knowledge about this stuff than I do.) And is just useless for most people in the business world where multiple page documents are the norm. So she asked me for help.Īnd that’s when I discovered that Word’s ‘Insert Object from file’ function only inserts the first page of the file. She wanted to insert it in her Word document as an Appendix but to date it had beaten her. The resulting document was seven pages long.

The spreadsheet was fairly wide, and she had created the PDF using an A3 paper size. Too bad if your file has multiple pages… as most do.Ĭarol’s problem was with a multi page PDF she had created from Excel (the original was a large text table - nothing fancy). When you insert a file as an object, only ONE page of the file is displayed in Word. Word is kludgy (that’s a technical term!) when it comes to inserting objects from other applications - including from other Office apps.

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