hi everyone my name is kevin today i
want to show you how you can edit a pdf
using microsoft word and as full
disclosure before we jump into this i
work at microsoft as a full-time
employee all right well let's jump on
the desktop
here i am on my desktop and i have a pdf
file called certificate i'm going to go
ahead and click on that and i have this
nice certificate that i found online
it's a pdf file and i run a company and
i have some employees who i want to
celebrate you know instead of giving
people a pay raise i'm just going to
give him this paper certificate and
hopefully that makes him satisfied with
this company
no really i'd probably just give him
more money i think that makes people
happy um and maybe throw the certificate
in too
but here's the certificate and
unfortunately it's a pdf and i can't
edit the name of the recipient i can't
type anything down here i can't type in
a date it's kind of annoying how it's
hard to edit pdf so i wish i could just
open it and just start typing but
luckily it's pretty easy to do if you
have microsoft word okay so i'm going to
go ahead and let's close this
certificate for now and i'm going to
open up microsoft word now this is the
latest version of word this comes with
office 365 but if you have an older
version as well this should probably
work i can't guarantee it i just know
that it works with the most recent
recent copy of word so i'm on the word
home screen here and it's actually very
simple to open this pdf so i'm going to
click on the certificate and i could
just drag that over to word as an
alternative i could also go to open and
i could find where the file is on my pc
but i'm going to go with the easy
approach we're simply going to drag and
drop the certificate over now i get this
long message here and i know it's very
easy to just always click ok when you
see a message but basically all it's
telling me that it's going to do is it's
going to take that pdf and it's going to
convert that into a word document
and it'll be optimized for me to edit
edits what i want to do that sounds good
and it might not look exactly like the
original pdf especially if the original
pdf contained a lot of graphics okay
sounds reasonable let's give it a shot
so i'm going to click on ok and i could
also set it so it never shows me that
message again so we're going to click on
ok and let's see here
so here's the certificate i just showed
you as a pdf and the nice thing now is
look at that i could just type letters
on this pdf i can modify it so
let's say for my company the first
winner of the employee of the month is
kevin stratford no better person to win
than the owner of the company
i'm sure that's going to improve morale
of all of my employees
so i'm just going to make sure that's
nice and centered so there it is awarded
to kevin stratford and unfortunately i
can't click right down here so why don't
i just copy this text box
and so that way i get that same font and
i'm just going to get rid of the
underline we're going to reduce the font
size a little bit
oh name of presenter that's a little
awkward because i'm the owner and i'm
also the presenter and i gave it to
myself that's really obvious now but
we'll just go with it and then for the
date we're gonna put in september number
first so we're just gonna enter in
today's date september 1st 2019
and there we have it so i modified or i
edited this certificate and now what i
could do is i could go to file and we're
going to go to save as and now what i
could do is i could actually save it as
a pdf so maybe i'm going to call this a
certificate kevin since it's going to be
my certificate we'll go ahead and click
on save
and so now what this has done is it
saved a new pdf and i modified it so
here you know it's awarded to me
presented by me
and it has today's date on it
so that's how you
open a pdf using microsoft word how you
could edit the pdf using microsoft word
and then how you could save your
save it as a pdf again using microsoft
word
so you could open edit and save and get
it back into pdf format it's actually
really easy to do if you have word
so yeah go ahead go ahead edit those
pdfs hopefully this helped you if it did
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