Receipts for tax purposes oy vey

[flemmings]

There was something on FB about 'you can sneer at millennials all you want but wait till you need to turn a .pdf into a Word doc.' Oh well, one googles it, and finds various online tools that will do this for you. But I need a millennial, or possibly a Gen Z, to tell me the one step that will put all those .pdf attachments into a single .doc. One could c&p the lot but I chose instead to print them all out, and let the accountant deal with the stack.

Not helped by the printer hiccupping and not grabbing the paper seven tries in a row. But at least it's done.

Comments

[taz-39.livejournal.com]

Convert the pdfs into word. Usually this option is either in the "Save As" or "Print" options, as a dropdown. In Adobe itself there is sometimes a tool pane where "Export PDF" is an option, that will get you there too.

Once the pdfs are converted you simply copy/paste them into a document. They are going to save as separate docs just like they were made, but at least if they have multiple pages you can copy them all at once and paste them in.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

"Save as" gets you pages and pages of coding so you need a tool to strip that out. And yeah, c&p is always possible but such a chore.

Some pdfs have a straight print option, but some don't, for no apparent reason.

[taz-39.livejournal.com]

Wow, ok. Nevermind.I've never gotten any coding just from saving a pdf as word, or converting it to word. Maybe this isn't a normal pdf. I guess ask someone younger and smarter haha.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're using a much more recent form of Office than I am. Or whoever generated the nonprintable over-coded pdf was being outdated themselves.