I tried to search with no luck.
I am pasting from a PDF to word. The text I am copying from the pdf is in a narrow column. When I paste into word I would like the text to be expanded to fill the entire width of the document. Any ideas besides backspacing before each line?
thanks!
When you copy from the PDF you pick up all the characters; so, the ΒΆ character is included.
This reflects the layout/format set in the authoring file from which the PDF was created.
Trying to alter the PDF could prove to be awkward.
If you've the authoring/source file you can edit it.
As you are doing the copy-paste it is likely that you do not have this file .So, a couple of things to try.
1.
Once the copy-paste from PDF to Word is done use Word's Find and Replace.
Go the the "Replace with:" field and insert a space character.
Place the mouse cursor in the "Find what:" field.
Click on the "More" button in the Find and Replace dialog.
Click on the "Special" button.
Select "Paragraph Mark" - "^p" should show in the "Find what:" field.
Now "Find Next" and then "Replace" or use "Replace All".
2. Use "Save As" to save the PDF to a text file (*.txt).
Open this text file with your word processor application.
While #1 is interesting (sort of), I kinda like #2.
Ran a quick test on a PDF made from a 3 column file containing dummy text and some Headings.
#2 worked nicely.
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