How to export PDF comments to Microsoft Word using Acrobat XI
Learn how to convert PDF to Word and export PDF comments to Word for fast review and integration.
By Patti Sokol – September 7, 2012
In this tutorial, learn how to convert PDF to Word and export PDF comments to Word for fast review and integration, convert files to and from PDF online.
How to export PDF comments to Microsoft Word using Acrobat XI
Patti Sokol – September 7, 2012
You've converted a Word document to PDF and sent it for review. Your colleagues have submitted their comments. Do you have to manually apply those suggested edits to the original Word document? No! Acrobat XI can help. Here is a document that has comments on it. In my comment pane, I am going to go to the options menu, and select export to Word. I only want to export the comments that I have checked. And I am going to turn on track changes so that I can see where the changes take place in the Word document. The Word document opens up automatically and it even prompts me to integrate the text edits. Here is a suggestion to delete a word. I will go ahead and apply that deletion. And with a single click I will apply all remaining text edits. Because I had track changes on I can see where Acrobat made the changes for me in the Word document. With Acrobat XI you can quickly apply review changes to your Word documents without the hassle of doing it manually.
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steve
6, 2016-03-01 01, 2016Trying to export comments into word and receiving “the acrobat PDFMaker Server could not be loaded.
Do you want to run the installer in repair mode? Nothing happen after running it in repair after reboot.
Lori Kassuba
5, 2015-05-21 21, 2015Hi Elijah Espinal,
Yes, you can include comments that are made in Reader, but you’ll only be able to import the comments back into the Word file using Acrobat (Windows).
Thanks,
Lori
Lori Kassuba
3, 2015-05-20 20, 2015Hi Elijah Espinal,
Yes, you can make include comments that were made in Reader, but you’ll only be able to import the comments back into the Word file using Acrobat.
Thanks,
Lori
Elijah Espinal
5, 2015-05-15 15, 2015Will this work if the PDF comments were made in Reader and not Acrobat?
Lori Kassuba
1, 2015-04-28 28, 2015Hi hemedi,
You need to use either Acrobat or Export PDF/PDF Pack Service to convert a PDF file to Word.
Thanks,
Lori
hemedi
1, 2015-04-24 24, 2015hi,how can i convert pdf to word
Lori Kassuba
8, 2015-03-12 12, 2015Hi Elaine,
The URL won’t be in the downloaded PDF. Instead, you need to right-click on the PDF in your browser to locate the URL.
Thanks,
Lori
Elaine
6, 2015-03-07 07, 2015How can I see the URL of a downloaded pdf?
Lori Kassuba
10, 2014-10-08 08, 2014Hi Milo,
You need Acrobat and not just the free Reader to export PDF comments back to Word.
Thanks,
Lori
Milo
11, 2014-10-04 04, 2014I have Adobe Reader 11.0.09 but I don’t have option for exporting comments to Word at all (even not with gray colour). Do you have an idea how to enable it?
Thanks a lot
Milo
Lori Kassuba
2, 2014-07-23 23, 2014Thanks Kelly Fraga. You can also find more articles about Acrobat at:
http://alltamedia.com/blog/
Lori
Kelly Fraga
5, 2014-07-22 22, 2014Wow, great to know! I’m going to spend more time on these blogs one way or another! It’s well worth the time spent, thank you.
Lori Kassuba
1, 2014-05-23 23, 2014Hi jessica,
What you can do is filter the highlight comments out before creating the comment summary. Then in the Comment Summary dialog be sure to select “Only the comments currently showing”.
Thanks,
Lori
jessica
5, 2014-05-20 20, 2014Hi, what if i want to export the comments only (not highlights) to a new clean word file. The tutorial talks about exporting comments to an existing word file, but I just want to send them to a new file.
There’s an option of “Create comment summary” but it creates it in pdf and includes other editions such as highligths, I just want to export comments. Can I do that?
amiller
2, 2013-01-20 20, 2013Do the reviewers have to have Acrobat XI Pro also or just reader?
Hi amiller,
The reviewers only need Reader XI to provide you with comments. Here is another tutorial on the subject that explains in more detail:
https://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-roundtrip-comments-between-acrobat-and-word
Thanks,
Lori
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