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Opening and editing PDF documents

Opening and editing PDF documents - Microsoft Word Tutorial

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Opening and editing PDF documents

One thing you can do in Word 2013 that you could never do in any previous version of Microsoft Word is open up a PDF file, and start editing it. In fact, you can make changes to the PDF file, and save it back to a PDF file. That's what we are going to do right now. So, it really doesn't matter what's on your screen at this point. We are going to open up a file by going to the File tab, and choosing Open. Next, we are going to go to our Computer, and find the Exercise Files. We are going to the Chapter1 folder, which is a Recent Folder that I viewed, so it's on my list, but wherever you've stored your Exercise Files, going to the Chapter1 folder, you'll see we do have a PDF file here called No Obstacles Bio. Now, this file is typically opened in a PDF Reader. It's read-only, and if we wanted to make changes to the file, typically you'd need a program like Adobe Acrobat, for example. Well now, if you have Word 2013, you can go right ahead, select it, and click Open to open it up in…

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