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AccessHelp wrote:
Hello all,

I have a 250-page pdf file. The pdf file is a checklist which means it has
columns and tables. I like to convert it into Excel without losing any
formatting from the pdf file.

Does anyone know of a software to do it or other solutions? Any suggestions
would be appreciated.


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Copy/Paste from the PDF document into Excel frequently works if its organization
is not overly complex and variable. You may need to use Excel's
DataTextToColumns afterwards to break it into separate columns - or you may not.

Alternatively OCR software can frequently read in PDF files and output Excel
data that is properly tabled and requires no further manipulation. I use
AbbyyFine for the purpose, but there are other programs out there too.

Good luck.

Bill