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September 2, 2022 at 6:03 am #3993266
Windows 11, Word and PDF
by russellpcairns · about 2 years, 5 months ago
Tags: Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows
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?
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September 2, 2022 at 11:36 am #3993305
Re: Word and pdf
by kees_b · about 2 years, 5 months ago
In reply to Windows 11, Word and PDF
Recent versions of MS Word (2013 and later) can open and edit pdf’s indeed. But you need to use File>Open in Word to open it.
In Settings>Apps>Default Apps you tell Windows what program to open a file based on the extension (like .pdf or .jpg or .docx) with if you double click the file in File Explorer. Apparently it still says to open a pdf with Adobe Reader.
It’s not a good idea to uninstall a program that is referenced there and leave it as default program to open certain file types with.
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September 21, 2022 at 7:55 am #3996932
Reply To: Windows 11, Word and PDF
by Willjoe24 · about 2 years, 4 months ago
In reply to Windows 11, Word and PDF
How to convert a Word document to a PDF:
Open the file in Microsoft Word.
Convert Word document to PDF: On Windows, click the Acrobat tab, then click “Create PDF.”
Protect PDF:
Save as a PDF fileRegards,
Will
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