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/t5/acrobat-discussions/pdf-to-word-in-converted-word-document-header-and-footer-appearing-as-text/td-p/9679850 Feb 19, 2018 Feb 19, 2018
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Header and footer appearing as text in Exported word document
Software using: Adobe acrobat Pro dc 2015 and 2017 release. Both the release has this issue.
1. Edit PDF > Tools> Headers and Footers> Add new footer by replacing the existing one/update existing header and footer > save > export to word> verify if the header and footer is retained in word
Actual result: header and footer appearing as editable text.
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Adobe Employee , Feb 26, 2018 Feb 26, 2018 harsha_nidhig82437067 • Adobe Employee , Feb 26, 2018 Feb 26, 2018There might be a possibility where the text present in header/footer section is not actually one. But instead manually added text. Kindly confirm if it's header/footer or normal text. You can differentiate by double clicking on the text (which is assumed to be header/footer), if it opens Design tab in the menu bar where header/footer operations can be done, then it's header/footer else it's manually added text.
If this doesn't clear your query can you please share the pdf with us, so
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If you expect them to appear as a Word header/footer, that's not possible.
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Adobe Employee ,/t5/acrobat-discussions/pdf-to-word-in-converted-word-document-header-and-footer-appearing-as-text/m-p/9679852#M89706 Feb 26, 2018 Feb 26, 2018
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There might be a possibility where the text present in header/footer section is not actually one. But instead manually added text. Kindly confirm if it's header/footer or normal text. You can differentiate by double clicking on the text (which is assumed to be header/footer), if it opens Design tab in the menu bar where header/footer operations can be done, then it's header/footer else it's manually added text.
If this doesn't clear your query can you please share the pdf with us, so that we can do a better investigation on this?
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/t5/acrobat-discussions/pdf-to-word-in-converted-word-document-header-and-footer-appearing-as-text/m-p/10964199#M243769 Mar 04, 2020 Mar 04, 2020
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I have the EXACT same problem. I export a pdf file into Word and the first 10 lines of each page are displayd in a slightly lighter font. When this section is clicked, the Design tab opens. If I delete header, these lines are deleted.
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/t5/acrobat-discussions/pdf-to-word-in-converted-word-document-header-and-footer-appearing-as-text/m-p/11163945#M259138 May 27, 2020 May 27, 2020
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I have the same problem. I don't know how this is marked "solved" when there's no solution offered anywhere in the reply.
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/t5/acrobat-discussions/pdf-to-word-in-converted-word-document-header-and-footer-appearing-as-text/m-p/11440199#M277241 Sep 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020
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Same problem, no solution.
The ongoing problem of cllients wanting their InDesign files in Word is sometimes solved with saving to a pdf and then exporting to Word BUT when I do this the heads at the top of the page (which are in the same flowed text file as everything else) ends up as headers in the Word file.
Man, if Adobe could figure out how to get a clean word file from INDesign it would be amazing.
