hi there jamie keet here today at teachers tech hope you're having a great day today
today i want to share with you an overlooked feature in microsoft word and that is you can
edit your pdfs right in word very easily that's what i want to show you today on teachers tech
so i have these three different pdf files that i want to show you how to edit in microsoft
word now each of these are a little different the graphic with graphics and just how i got them and
the first one that i'm going to show you that i'm going to open up is just this word tutorial pdf
this is a document that was actually created in word and saved with the pdf and i'll open
it up you can see this is a pdf right here that you can't edit through this way
but if i open this in word so just by simply going to open here i have these saved on my
on my computer i'll go to my desktop and pdf files and it's this word one
notice it will ask me the question do you want to convert this pdf to a word i'm going to hit
ok and now i have this word document and i really didn't lose anything out of it it looks the same
as it did as the pdf through it so it's different documents like that that were created in word or
as a doc maybe a different uh word processor they open very easily in pdfs if they were exported to
a pdf when they were done now the next one what i want to show you is the certificate of completion
now this is just something i created in canva and i'll just go ahead and open it up and you can see
with the graphics not too much for graphics but some colors and a fancy font right here
i'm going to go ahead and open this one up i'm just going to go back here what you can
do instead of going to the open i can just drag this over too and it will do the same process
i'm going to hit ok at this point again and it's going to open up this certificate of completion
and you can see that there were some changes the fancy font isn't there uh and the fonts changed so
whether or not i didn't have the same ones in it but i can still edit this so first of all i
notice well that's not the right year or i could go through and change the name on here so maybe
i'm going to make this a dog certificate and i could change it down here and write whatever i
want if i want to turn this back to pdf at the end remember with microsoft word
i could go to file i could go to export and here's create pdf or just under the save as you have the
option as a pdf here so you can send it back to pdf after you've edited inside microsoft word
now the next one what i want to show you is a scan so this one right here i'm just going to go ahead
and show you again so this is just a scan i did for my phone so it's kind of like a picture that
i saved as a pdf and i did this with the office app if you haven't used the office app it has
office lens built right into it and you can scan things quickly send it right over to word or turn
them into pdf sign pdfs i'll put the link to that video down below so you can check that out it's
very very powerful for things like this so you can see it has a little bit of a graphic here
i'm just going to go ahead and open this one up here so i'm just going to go back
i'm going to grab the scan drop it in hit okay and now look now this one didn't come
across it's quite as clean and it was a pretty simple document but you can see the graphic
isn't in there it got the right word uh the uh and you can see how the fonts kind of the lines
spacing and everything but these are things that i can edit so depending on how big of a document you
have i could take pictures with my phone and scan them as a pdf and then convert it so i don't have
to type everything out like this and then you just have to go through and do some editing but
it does depend on how complex the page how many graphics and different things too and how well
it converts over so that's just some tips about how to edit pdfs in microsoft word it makes it
very very easy it's just something i noticed that is overlooked a lot when people are trying
to figure out how to change their pdfs so i hope you like this tip tip today let me know what you
think or other tips that you might want to learn about microsoft word or other tech products thanks
for watching this week on teachers tech i'll see you next time with more tech tips and tutorials