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How To Select And Convert Tables Among Text

PDF to Excel Conversion

For the most part, converting PDF tables to Excel can be very simple. Your table is isolated, on a single page and nicely centered.

However, PDFs being what they are and content being as diverse as it is, your tables won’t always be ideally formatted as such in the PDF you’re dealing with. It may be nested within paragraphs and surrounded by extra content and text that you may not need at all.

You’ve no doubt seen this in annual reports, brochures or statistical data compiled into a study. The formatting and layout may be easy on the eyes, but it isn’t on the conversion process.

So how do you extract only the table you want?

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How To Perform A PDF Batch Conversion

Guide on performing Batch PDF Conversion

If you want to increase your productivity in the office, the first thing that usually comes to mind is constructing a better, more streamlined document management strategy. And in today’s data-intensive world, PDF files that create bottlenecks will be your first target.

Because it’s so compact, secure and portable, the PDF is perfect for viewing, storing and sharing any content within your company.

Nevertheless, this can cause serious problems when you need to repurpose, analyze or edit the content trapped within the PDF file format.

If you know how difficult it is to work with one PDF document, then you can imagine what it’d be like to work with five, ten or even twenty PDFs at a time.

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How To Convert PDF To Publisher

When working with business cards, brochures, calendars, newsletters or other similar documents, the simplest tool to use is Microsoft Publisher. Publisher is a desktop publishing program that is included with the Microsoft Office suite and includes templates for many types of business needs and can be used to create a variety of high quality publications.

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How To Create Excel Pivot Tables

We all use Microsoft Excel for different reasons. It’s a great tool for any basic or complex calculations because it’s so easy to adjust and edit your data. Besides this, there are several important features why someone would be using Excel on a daily basis:

To visualize data — Excel charts are not perfect, but they serve a great purpose for visualizing information and numerical data.
For checklists — It seems unusual, but people do use Excel to take notes, create tables and lists since it’s flexible, powerful and reliable.
To deal with a large quantity of data — Pivot tables and data filtering is useful and can help when you wish to find any info on complex data sets. Also, Excel allows you to perform all sorts of tasks regarding quick data manipulation.

Excel is amazing, but it isn’t surprising that the data imported into Excel spreadsheets oftentimes comes from a PDF document. It isn’t rare to find bank statements, various legal documents, account reports, and other corporate and federal data locked in PDF, data that needs to be sifted through and analyzed in Pivot tables.

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How To Change PDF Paper Sizes

The beauty about PDF conversion is that it makes working with your digital content in any number of ways easy. Yet while the PDF is meant to preserve your content, there are cases where you may need to make some adjustments to the document, such as changing the paper size.

When you print a PDF document, it’s completely possible to print that document on paper other than the standard 8.5 x 11 Letter size you work with in MS Word for basic documents– essays, reports, and forms.

However, depending on what your PDF content is intended for, you may need those PDF pages to print to a different PDF paper size. Often times, professionals will be very specific when it comes to turning PDF files into a physical copy.

In fact, there are many different paper sizes that are used across different industries for different purposes. For instance, tabloid and ledger paper sizes (11 x 17 inches) are of the same dimensions, but have different orientation. These two sizes are used commonly for print publications like magazines and newspapers and for keeping records and business ledgers. In such cases, it becomes essential to have your page resized and customized for such purposes.

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To resize digital proofs, official content, and data into physical final drafts accurately, may seem difficult. But you can easily do so just before the conversion process. All you have to do is adjust the Page size for the conversion output.

As part of its roster of editing features, Able2Extract Pro can help you customize the output conversion for content specifically intended for print. Able2Extract comes supports some of the most common paper sizes that are compatible with ANSI, ISO, and Arch specifications.

Customizing Paper Sizes In Able2Extract

To access this option in Able2Extract Professional, go to Edit Document>Resize Pages:

To change your PDF conversion size, click on the drop down arrow and select your desired paper size:

Finally, click on the Resize button and you’re all set to continue your conversion.

So whether you need to change the format from an A series to an ISO standard size, Able2Extract Professional can make it work. To try this feature and see what paper sizes you can convert to, download a free trial for 7 days.