How to Convert then Edit Your PDFs in Microsoft Word

hi there jamie keet here today at teachers  tech hope you're having a great day today   today i want to share with you an overlooked  feature in microsoft word and that is you can   edit your pdfs right in word very easily that's  what i want to show you today on teachers tech so i have these three different pdf files that  i want to show you how to edit in microsoft   word now each of these are a little different the  graphic with graphics and just how i got them and   the first one that i'm going to show you that i'm  going to open up is just this word tutorial pdf   this is a document that was actually created  in word and saved with the pdf and i'll open   it up you can see this is a pdf right  here that you can't edit through this way   but if i open this in word so just by simply  going to open here i have these saved on my   on my computer i'll go to my desktop  and pdf files and it's this word one   notice it will ask me the question do you want  to convert this pdf to a word i'm going to hit   ok and now i have this word document and i really  didn't lose anything out of it it looks the same   as it did as the pdf through it so it's different  documents like that that were created in word or   as a doc maybe a different uh word processor they  open very easily in pdfs if they were exported to   a pdf when they were done now the next one what i  want to show you is the certificate of completion   now this is just something i created in canva and  i'll just go ahead and open it up and you can see   with the graphics not too much for graphics  but some colors and a fancy font right here   i'm going to go ahead and open this one up  i'm just going to go back here what you can   do instead of going to the open i can just drag  this over too and it will do the same process   i'm going to hit ok at this point again and it's  going to open up this certificate of completion   and you can see that there were some changes the  fancy font isn't there uh and the fonts changed so   whether or not i didn't have the same ones in  it but i can still edit this so first of all i   notice well that's not the right year or i could  go through and change the name on here so maybe   i'm going to make this a dog certificate and i  could change it down here and write whatever i   want if i want to turn this back to pdf  at the end remember with microsoft word   i could go to file i could go to export and here's  create pdf or just under the save as you have the   option as a pdf here so you can send it back to  pdf after you've edited inside microsoft word   now the next one what i want to show you is a scan  so this one right here i'm just going to go ahead   and show you again so this is just a scan i did  for my phone so it's kind of like a picture that   i saved as a pdf and i did this with the office  app if you haven't used the office app it has   office lens built right into it and you can scan  things quickly send it right over to word or turn   them into pdf sign pdfs i'll put the link to that  video down below so you can check that out it's   very very powerful for things like this so you  can see it has a little bit of a graphic here   i'm just going to go ahead and open this  one up here so i'm just going to go back   i'm going to grab the scan drop it in hit  okay and now look now this one didn't come   across it's quite as clean and it was a pretty  simple document but you can see the graphic   isn't in there it got the right word uh the uh  and you can see how the fonts kind of the lines   spacing and everything but these are things that i  can edit so depending on how big of a document you   have i could take pictures with my phone and scan  them as a pdf and then convert it so i don't have   to type everything out like this and then you  just have to go through and do some editing but   it does depend on how complex the page how many  graphics and different things too and how well   it converts over so that's just some tips about  how to edit pdfs in microsoft word it makes it   very very easy it's just something i noticed  that is overlooked a lot when people are trying   to figure out how to change their pdfs so i hope  you like this tip tip today let me know what you   think or other tips that you might want to learn  about microsoft word or other tech products thanks   for watching this week on teachers tech i'll see  you next time with more tech tips and tutorials

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Length: 4min 19sec (259 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 06 2021