But this means you have to use Acrobat Reader (to select text) and I much prefer to use Apple's Preview. Though I understand that this will change in Panther .... Preview will do much more ... http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/preview.html Linda SE MI > > Whenever I need to do something like that, I just select and copy the > text > from the PDF and paste it into a text editor. Then I can > select/copy/delete > whatever I want or need for the document I'm working on. > > Of course, if you only need a small part of a very large PDF file, it > can be > a bit tedious... ;) > > Stan Marks