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Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists

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In article <bqlrmjFigisU1@mid.individual.net>, polygonum
<rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:

> On 09/04/2014 22:00, Alan Ralph wrote:
> > On 09/04/2014 22:45, Tim Streater wrote:
> >> In article <li3u62$lar$1@dont-email.me>, Alan Ralph
> >> <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Best thing about the Mac version of Office, other than the ability to
> >>> export to PDF, as that it has an actual menu at the top of the screen,
> >>> thus saving me from losing my mind trying to find particular features
> >>> on the Ribbon.
> >>
> >> Any Mac app that can print can export to PDF.
> >
> > True, but the ability to export to PDF from Office is available on both
> > Mac and Windows version (2007 onwards).
> >
> The ability of Word 2013 to read a PDF and then, at least on simpler 
> documents, quite a good job of converting the text into a Word document 
> has been very useful to me. Too often, even copying a single sentence 
> from a PDF in Adobe Reader results in messed up text with broken 
> words/lines, odd extra characters, etc.

Try Preview, then. You can copy/paste from a PDF even across columns
and just get the text.

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 lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores 
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Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-09 10:32 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-04-09 12:05 +0100
    Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-04-09 21:46 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Rob <monst.oorzudo@ntlworld.com> - 2014-04-11 06:12 +0100
  Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-04-09 14:19 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-09 15:43 +0000
    Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-04-09 21:47 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> - 2014-04-09 17:57 +0100
    Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-04-09 21:45 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Alan Ralph <usenet@alanralph.co.uk> - 2014-04-09 22:00 +0100
        Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer   exists polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-04-09 22:17 +0100
          Re: Microsoft Word created for a paper document world that no longer exists Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-04-09 22:25 +0000

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