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USING ACROBAT 9 STANDARD
Saving and exporting PDFs
Note: If you choose any other page layout, all the text in the document is selected.
Copy selected text
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Use the Select tool
to select any amount of text on the page.
Copy the text:
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• Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text to another application.
• Right-click on the selected text, and then select Copy.
• Right-click on the selected text, and then choose Copy With Formatting. This command, which preserves the
column layout, appears only if the document is tagged properly.
You can paste copied text into comments and bookmarks as well as into documents authored in other applications.
Convert tables to spreadsheets
You convert tables to Excel by copying and pasting the content to a file.
For scanned documents, choose Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR. This command
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converts the scanned images to text. The quality of your original scan affects how well you can copy and paste the
text.
Click the Select tool
.
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Press Alt as you drag a rectangle over the rows and columns to copy.
To select tables that exceed one page, try changing the page display to Single Page Continuous before selecting the
tables. (View > Page Display > Single Page Continuous)
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Right-click the selection, and choose one of the following options:
Preserves formatting when you copy the table to Excel. In Excel, use the Paste Special command and
Copy As Table
select XML Spreadsheet.
Lets you paste the table to a new file.
Save As Table
Opens the table in a CSV-compliant application, such as Excel.
Open Table In Spreadsheet
To copy a table in RTF, drag the selected table into an open document in the target application.
Copy images
Use the Select tool to copy and paste individual images from a PDF to the clipboard (Windows only), to another
application, or to a file.
If you cannot select an image because of overlapping text, open the Preferences dialog box, and under Categories, select
General. Then select Make Select Tool Select Images Before Text.
Using the Select tool
, do one of the following:
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• To select the entire image, click it or drag a rectangle around it.
• To select a portion of an image, hold the pointer over the image until the cross hair icon
a rectangle around the portion.
Note: To deselect an image and start over, click outside it.
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