Microsoft PDF Reflow will convert all the files contents, including its formatting like paragraphs, lists, headers, columns, footnotes, tables, etc, into Word content. When you open any PDF file in Word 2013, it starts to convert it using Microsoft PDF Reflow. Go to any PDF file location, right-click on the PDF file, select ‘Open with’ option, and choose ‘Word (desktop) to open it in Word 2013. When you install Office, you will notice that the context menu for any PDF file, has an option to open a PDF file in Microsoft Word, along with your other PDF Readers like Adobe Reader or Foxit and Windows Reader, if you are on Windows 10/8. In this post, we will see how to edit PDF files in Word. With Word 2013, however, you can convert a PDF into a Word document and edit the content.

Adobe Free Reader, therefore, does not allow you to modify the content in a PDF.

Why so? PDF is technically an image file, converting this image file back to text needs sophisticated OCR like Adobe Acrobat X Pro or other tools. Although the full version of Adobe Acrobat allows users to modify PDFs, it’s more cumbersome than editing the original document in MS Office. Office 2010 provided the option to save a document as PDF, but Microsoft Word 2013 even allows editing of the content before sending it to the final recipient, as a PDF file. But if you need to edit PDF files, Microsoft Word 2019/2016/2013 brings a multitude of features to the word-processing table, one being the capability to edit PDFs. The format is most used for viewing and not editing. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a common format for sharing final versions of files.

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