See how to insert a file in PDF format into your Office file as an attachment. You can resize the object, but you can’t edit it after you insert it. You’ll need to have Adobe Acrobat or Abode Reader installed to see or read PDF files.
Really, this is not at all how PDFs are designed or expected to use. PDFs are not made in Acrobat. They are not edited in Acrobat, except as a desperate last resort. You should make PDFs in whatever design program suits you (e.g. Word, InDesign; NOT Photoshop) and save a PDF. For every change remake the PDF.
Note: If you're looking to insert the contents of your PDF file into an Office file, as opposed to simply inserting the PDF as an attachment, then your best bet is to open that PDF with Word 2013 or 2016. Word will convert the PDF to editable text and you can then copy and paste that text into your Office document. For more information, go to Edit PDF content in Word.
Click Insert > Object in the Text group.
For Outlook, click inside of the body of an item, such as an email message or calendar event.
Click Create from File > Browse.
Browse to the .pdf file you want to insert, and then click Open.
Click OK.
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If you just want to reuse some of the text from a PDF—for example, a short passage—try copying and pasting it. Usually, you'll get plain test without the formatting.
With the PDF reflow feature available in Word 2013 and 2016, you can open and edit PDF content, such as paragraphs, lists, and tables, as Word documents. Word pulls the content from the fixed-format PDF document and flows that content into a .docx file while preserving as much of the layout information as it can. See Edit PDF content in Word to learn more.
Word for the web doesn’t let you insert objects, such as PDFs, into a document. However, you can edit the PDF itself in Word for the web, which lets you update the PDF’s content, or copy and paste content from the PDF into a Word document.
Note: When you open a PDF in Word for the web, it is converted to a Word document and may not look exactly like the original document. For example, line and page breaks may happen in different spots. The conversion works best with PDFs that are mostly text.
If you own the Word desktop app, you can use it to add a PDF. Click Open in Word to start using the desktop app.
If you don’t own the Word desktop app, you can try or buy the latest version of Office now.
We make frequent updates to Word for the web. To get the latest news on features, visit the Office Online.
If you have a PDF that you want to share with the world via Facebook, you might hit a snag. You simply can't upload that file type to Facebook as a photo. Thankfully, there are a few ways around that little roadblock. Here's how to navigate those workarounds.
If you have Adobe Acrobat software on your desktop, you're in luck. Acrobat is basically the king of all things PDF, and it can help you out. Use the software to export or convert PDFs to different file formats, including image formats. Follow these steps:
Once you're done exporting the file, navigate to the folder where you saved the new file, and there you have it: an image ready for Facebook upload.
Plenty of free file-type converters are available online, including ones that convert PDF files to image formats.
Visit the PDF Converter website, for example, to convert a PDF file to JPG format. This site can also change a PDF to PNG or TIFF image format.
This one's probably the simplest option. If you open the PDF file on your desktop and take a screenshot of it, your computer will save that screenshot as an image file – most likely in the PNG format. Facebook works well with PNG files, so you shouldn't have any problems uploading this screenshot to the social media platform.
This method is a little convoluted, but it works, so here goes:
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