Dot Greene wrote to ask, “How can I copy a PDF report, which hascolumns, and paste it into Word or Excel without losing the columnformatting?” OK — let’s start with what PDF means. A portable document ...

Portable Document Format files can contain many types of data, including images, charts and simple text. If you want to use the information from a PDF in your next PowerPoint presentation, you can do ...

As software has grown more sophisticated, there is more opportunity for users to mash up content between different programs. The Excel spreadsheet program, for example, used to handle only text and ...

I've encountered few PDF files that look fine but when you try to copy out of them, you get gibberish (just a bunch of weird characters sprinkled with #@!$). I've tried both the Preview and Acrobat so ...

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac. If ...