Man, I didn't know Acrobat could do that!

Well this is a question for the ages now isn’t it.  Why? Is Word more important than Excel?  Only Microsoft can tell us that! I do get asked many times, “Tim, why can I export a PDFback to Word and not Excel, or PowerPoint?â€? 

Ok, let’s look at this a little, why ever export back to any format?  Well, there are a few answers here, mostly for lost of original documents, but also for simple data reuse.  So why only Word?  (â€?Don’t get pushy here!â€?) Well because Word is a universal format within the Microsoft world.  I can copy from Word into all other Office products, with decent fidelity.  But, you say that spreadsheets are different!  They have tables, rows, columns, lions, tigers, and bears, Oh My! But never fear my young PDFling, there is a way to get your table data out of PDF directly to Excel!

Watch, enjoy and put some life in your life.

Tim

In this episode, Tim gets festive and shows you how to create a multimedia e-card using Acrobat 8 Professional. He takes a photo which he created in Photoshop CS3 and then created a PDF, after that, he created a blank PDF and added his holiday message to you. He then added a very cool track from the Brian Setzer Orchestra (click here to purchase) and then added a few buttons for multimedia control and navigation and finished with a lesson on taking the whole thing full screen! A fun romp through PDF toyland. Have fun and Happy Holidays! Click here for the card from Tim!

Remember to keep some life in your life and show some love to someone!

Be safe and have a happy holidays!

Tim

In my blog, I was asked a question from Liz and it made me think, humm, what’s for dinner, whoops, got off track there, actually the question was: “I understood the lesson you gave on creating forms and then distributing them. But what if my organization wants to create a form and post it to our Web site for people to download and complete, then mail back? Is there no way to do that? Must it be distributed via e-mail by me, the document/form creator?â€? This is a great question!  The answer is no, you can easily do this using a simular approach, watch here!  And remember to keep some life in your life!

Tim Huff