Can you send me the PDF and Word document?

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I’m often asked, “Can you send me the PDF and 
a Word document?” This is normally followed  

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by a little bit of eye-rolling or sighing if 
I’m by myself, but of course, I always say,  

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“Yes,” and I’m able to do it really quickly 
and easily. So, I’m going to show you how. So  

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of course, if I’m designing a print piece, 
it’s probably in Illustrator or InDesign,  

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so I’m just going to flip to a PDF that’s in Adobe 
Pro DC. If you go to File > Properties, you can  

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see some details about it, and you can see it was 
made in InDesign. So, when it’s coming from these  

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design programs, the text is really text, images are 
images. All of those details are saved in the PDF.

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So, you can use this quick Export to >Microsoft 
Word option right from Adobe Acrobat Pro.  

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To get a Word document, I’m going 
to save it right to my desktop.

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It takes just a few seconds, and it opens it in 
Word. So, it’s not 100% perfect, but  

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what this allows is your client to be able to 
copy and paste, to use tracking and make edits  

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in a way that they’re used to maybe with their 
team. I just always ask, first I say, “Hey  

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this was not designed in Word, so it might not 
look perfect. The fonts might not be perfect  

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but this will give you a start 
and it’s what I can give you.”  

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So, it meets what their ask is, and it’s a 
great, a great way to get a PDF made quickly.  

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All right, so another option is what if 
you’re on a website. I’ll have clients say,  

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“Okay, that’s great. You know I’d like to edit 
some things. Can you give that to me in Word?”

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All right, again, you’re thinking this 
is code. No, I can’t give it to you  

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in Word. You can copy and paste it, right?” But,  
I say, “Yes, of course, I can. So, I use one of my  

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favorite tools. It’s up here. It’s a Google 
Chrome Extension. It’s called Go Full Page.

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So you click it, and it will take a picture of 
the full length of your website. So all the way  

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scrolling down. So that’s why I love this one is it
doesn’t just cut off what I can see in my viewport.

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All right, so then I select “Download 
as PDF.” So this is a free extension.

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All right, so I’m going to double-click open that 
PDF. All right, so right now the PDF has been turned  

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into an image. All right, so an image does not have 
text anymore. It’s all pixels. Right, soo, if I just  

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did File > Export to Microsoft Word it is going 
to export it for me, but what it’s going to do

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is just simply move the picture. One image that I 
can move around into Word. Okay, so that probably  

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doesn’t meet what your client is asking for, but 
there’s still a quick workaround here in Adobe.

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So, I’m going to go to Edit PDF. When I do 
that it’s actually going to convert my scan  

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page to editable text. So now my words have 
become a font, right. It didn’t load the exact  

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font that I had on my website, but 
it’s close enough. It’s actual letters, right. Okay, so now I can close my Edit view. You can see it’s still text that I can select now.

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This time when say I say, File > Export to Microsoft Word, it will keep the text that it’s now created.

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And now, back in Word, I have text that 
I could decide to put on Tracking for  

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and catch myself SMILING.

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Right, okay, so hopefully, this trick will help 
you next time a client or someone asks you,  

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“Can you send me the PDF and a Word document?”
when you turn over your beautiful design.  

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Good luck and happy designing!