ScanSoft PDF CONVERTER PROFESSIONAL 3-HELP Online Help Manual page 77

Editing After Converting
Editing Documents in Microsoft Word
If you defined the Word document name before converting, you can edit it freely.
There are cases when the Word documents cannot be named beforehand; they are
displayed in Word. You can edit these files without saving them first; however it is a
good idea to save them with the Save As command, before large-scale editing. The
source PDF file remains locked to other users until the converted file is saved.
PDF Converter is designed to replicate the original PDF pages as closely as
possible, keeping columns, titles, pictures and framed elements as they were. The
program offers two ways of having this done: Flowing Columns and True Page.
The latter places all page elements in text boxes or frames. The former removes
boxes when possible, and uses column and paragraph breaks and margin settings to
format the page.
If the converted page looks different, it may need only a small amount of editing to
restore it to the original layout, for instance, by removing or adding column or
paragraph breaks.
First of all we recommend switching the Show / Hide button ON to see how the
converted document layout is expressed.
Columns
To remove columns
If you do not need the columns generated by the converter:
1. Click the Columns button or select Columns from the Format menu.
2. Select One column.
To remove column breaks
The converter places column breaks at the end of the original columns to keep the
original layout.
To display the Column Break sign in Print Layout view, select Tools / Options / View
and All under Formatting marks.
In some cases columnar text may not fit well in the available space of the resulting
layout. In such cases, the column breaks at the end of the original columns may flow
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