How to convert PDF to word- If you are thinking to buy a PDF editor for editing PDF files, or want to convert PDF files into Word file, this post may save your money. In the new MS office version i.e. MS Office 2016 and MS Office 365, you can convert PDF to Word easily using MS Word 2016 or MS Word 365.

It should work in MS Office 2019 also, though we have not checked on this version. In earlier versions like MS Office 2010, we don’t find this capability

How to convert PDF to word using MS Word 2016

You may have two type of PDF documents, one is converted documents from MS Word to PDF using any PDF converter, PDF Printer or converted itself by MS Office. The other type of PDF document is scan PDF document.

In the first one type of document there are more chances to get PDF to word as like original document, if there are no much graphics element or tables. But in the second type of document where PDF file is just like a image file, there are less chances to keep originality of the documents.

In the second option, PDF to Word converting done using OCR (Optical Characteristic Recognition) technology where texts are recognized from the scan documents with the help of OCR inbuilt software. MS Office 365 and MS Office 2016 both have this feature.

Steps for converting PDF to Word

For the documents you want to convert, right click on the document and open the document with MS Word 2016. See the screen shot below:

At the time of opening the documents, it will ask you to convert the pdf document to editable word format, click ok and continue.

And now you see, your PDF document become a MS Word document, you can easily edit the document and can also convert again into PDF if required.

If you don’t have MS Office 2016 or MS Office 365, no need to worry, you can also convert PDF to word using One Drive online.

How to convert PDF to word using One Drive

To convert PDF to word using one drive, you need to upload the document inside One drive. After uploading the document, Click over the document, one check mark will be showing. Now from the top icons, click over “open in word online”. Your document will open in online word editor of One Drive. After editing, same can again be converting to PDF and can be downloaded. For details information see the screen shots below:

See the YouTube Video on How to convert PDF to Word using MS Word, One Drive and Google Drive

Conclusion

Using MS Office 2016, MS Office 365 and One Drive you can easily converted a PDF file to word easily for editing or for saving the same as word file only. This is very easy way how to convert PDF to word and saved our time, also no need to buy any third party PDF editor software.