Hi Joel,
You might be in a better position at work if you have
a graphics department, that has the full Adobe Acrobat product,
as opposed the free Acrobat reader. You would probably have
to use the free Acrobat reader at home and do one column at
a time.

In any case see
PDF and Excel
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/pdf.htm

In the related area there is a PDF to HTML converter
if you open the HTML in Internet Explorer you should be
able to paste into Excel.
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Joel" wrote in message ...
Yesterday after I responded to this question I got the same question at work.
we did a little investigation and found if you had Adobe Proffesional writer
you can save PDF to Microsoft word format.

I also have did it the painful way of scanning a document. the using the
Micrtosoft word OCR conversion. You can go toe the word Inser Menu and
select Picrue - from scanner.

"Gord Dibben" wrote:

"Best" as in functionality, price, dependability?

If you do a 'net search for "pdf to excel" you will get a load of hits.

I don't see any free ones.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On 20 Feb 2007 10:01:23 -0800, wrote:

What is the best product to convert PDF files to Excel?