Quite a few apps, including some free ones, turn your PDFs into editable Word docs or image files that you can embed. It's easier than you may think. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 ...

So you just received a printed copy of a Word document, and you would like to edit it. That's all good, but unfortunately, you don't have the original hard copy of the document from which the ...

Free web-based converter PDF-to-Word turns static PDF files into edit-friendly Word documents with surprising, reliable accuracy. It's in closed beta right now, but Lifehacker readers can get in early ...

To convert PDFs into Word files and on Mac, you should edit them with Google Docs or other third-party applications.

There’s also an open-source utility for the job that I’ve been using constantly: Pandoc. Pandoc calls itself "a universal document converter," with support for dozens of markup formats and document ...

With Microsoft Word's near domination of word processing, most users are familiar with its type-and-go ability. However, Word can also serve as an ideal repository for collecting and corralling ...

Here’s a common problem. Someone sends you a PDF file, and you need to make large-scale changes in it, the kind of wholesale editing that's impossible to do in PDF-editor apps like the ones you might ...