At 09:56 -0700 6/22/10, Ed Graf wrote: >I have Word 2008, rarely used. >Any ideas on getting a .pdf to be readable in Word 2008? Have you tried copy and paste from the PDF into a blank WORD window? There are numerous reasons why it might not work: .. The author may have protected the PDF with a password. .. Your PDF reader won't allow copying of the text. .. The PDF is really a cover sheet for a bit mapped image - You need optical character recognition for that. -- --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <--