Edit PDF's or convert to excell or word

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sleepy

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#207420 23-Dec-2016 13:48

I get a lot of Wholesale pricing by pdf from suppliers and would be great to

edit and change to retail pricing for staff and customers

Any recommendations.

I use Foxit reader for reading pdf's

gzt

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#1694351 23-Dec-2016 14:48

You can open PDF with Word, and then 'save as' in one of the standard word formats. Then you can edit like a normal word document.

gzt

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#1694353 23-Dec-2016 14:49

Try it with excel as well see if it works.

sleepy

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#1694356 23-Dec-2016 14:58

Works with Word but not with Excell

thanks that was a great thing to learn today

chevrolux

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#1694358 23-Dec-2016 15:05

I paid Adobe the $25 (or thereabouts) they wanted to convert pdf's to docx's or xls's.

Going to word docs works insanely well - formatting is dead perfect every time. Excel is a little bit more temperamental depending on how the columns were laid out originally.

Just got sick of mucking around with other PDF editors that did a half-assed job.

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#1694361 23-Dec-2016 15:06

In theory you can do it by copying a table in PDF, then pasting to word, then using the word convert to table feature, then saving and opening that in excel. Probably messy and time consuming.

There are online converters, but buying something good is probably the way to go.

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#1694465 23-Dec-2016 21:37

Foxit Phantom will convert a pdf to excel.

kingdragonfly

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#1695469 27-Dec-2016 17:24

Here's an article called "How to edit PDFs for free using software and online tools"

"AbleWord is the only free PDF editor we're aware of which will import a PDF and make it completely editable. It's best when importing PDF files that were created in Word, but will attempt to replicate all PDF files. The end result won't look identical to the original, but will be close."

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/software/free-pdf-editor-how-edit-pdf-3460855/