I recently bought a HP Elite Mini 800 G9 Desktop PC with Windows 11 Pro and upgraded my programs, etc. from a Windows 10 Dell computer that I have had for about 5 years.
Today, I tried to follow the instructions in Susan Harkins’ article “How to convert an image into editable text in Microsoft Word”.
I actually only wanted to open an existing PDF document for editing in Word. I found that Word would not even attempt to open the document – it defaulted to Acrobat Reader no matter what I tried to do. I even uninstalled Acrobat Reader only to find that the document still opened in Acrobat Reader even though Control Panel no longer shows Acrobat Reader at all.
I still have my old computer and I have no trouble at all opening PDF documents for editing in Word but it’s a real pain having to convert them on my old PC and then copy the converted document to my Windows 11 PC in order to work on it.
Is this a known problem with Windows 11, Word and/or PDF?