Acrobat pdf files

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Can anyone tell me if these pro-forma templates of small business Accounts and partnerships available in Adobe Acrobat 5.0 for can be imported into either Excel or Word?
They say that you can modify them, copy them and use them, but I just cannot get then to make any sense when I try to copy and paste, or even import them direct.
Would save an awful lot of typing and lining up decimals!
John Mackay

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By AnonymousUser
25th Jan 2002 21:57

Sarmad - to satisfy your curiosity!

Sarmad,

Just in case you don't have anything better to do then you could download the PDF files from this link:

Sample Accounts

Once you have exhausted all your ideas and if the copying and pasting still doesn't work, then you could post a supplementary question for somebody to give you a work-around solution.

Hope this helps.

Ps: Curiosity killed the cat

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By AnonymousUser
25th Jan 2002 18:32

PDF's
I am interested in those files conversion.
Send me a file on test basis so taht I can work on it.
In my opinion its very difficult to convert a pdf into excel.
Sarmad
Karachi - pakistan

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By Accounting WEB
20th Dec 2001 16:47

Acrobat pdf files
I've found the Adobe acrobat 5 save as RTF not quite as successful as I would wish.

An alternative is that I understand Scansoft Omnipage Pro 11.0 will read in PDF files and convert them into editable word files.

However, the idea of PDF files is that you create a file for people to annotate but not to change, hence why acrobat is not the most friendly of editing software.

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By Accounting WEB
20th Dec 2001 16:57

Acrobat pdf files / Omnipage
I've just done a little experiment using omnipage to read in a pdf file, OCR it, then save as either word or excel. It's worked quite well, although as always seems to be the case with this type of package, a bit of editing is going to be required. But at least the software got the numbers and words into an editable format.

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By neileg
21st Dec 2001 10:06

Background?
I have on occasion turned a PDF into a bit map and used it as a background to a word document. Then placed text boxes in the appropriate places to fill in. I'm not sure it was worth the effort, but it does work!

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By cbales
20th Dec 2001 09:44

Try this
John
Have you tried resaving a copy of the file in RTF format (rich text format) and then opening the resaved file in Word.

Depending on how the PDF file was constructed in the first place, you could well get a good result to use in Word.

Open your .pdf file and then go to File, Save as. Enter a different file name and select the location on your hard drive. Select RTF in the File Type window and click on Save. Open MS Word and select File, Open. Locate the resaved file and open.

Hope this helps.

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By Abacjm
20th Dec 2001 14:11

Thanks Chris
Tried to do that, but I think the problem is that I have the Adobe Acrobat Reader only which came as a freebie on a CD with a computer mag. It is also available for free download on the adobe site! http://www.adobe.com/acrobat.
Checking on their site, I see that I have to purchase Acrobat Approve which in the UK is going to cost £208.
I thought I could actually save these templates,preferably on Excel and use them as skeletons for producing final A/cs for clients.
Anyway, it may be worth printing them out and expending the time to manually input them into Excel and save them thereafter as templates.
It is either that or go Christmas shopping with the Mrs! Absolutely NO CONTEST!

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By Accounting WEB
20th Dec 2001 16:10

Pro-forma templates in pdf
Dear John,

I may be able to help if you could send me a sample of one of these templates. We use pdf a fair amount here & I would be happy to do a little investigation for you.

My e-mail is [email protected], or if you want to call to give me more of an idea of what you are trying to achieve, my number is 0870 848 2100.

regards,
Simon


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