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Subject:Re: Convert PDF into Excel From:"Ed Wurster" <eawurster -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 May 2004 08:10:02 -0400
> I've been trying to convert tables from PDF files into
> Excel but unfortunately it always flips the numbers (e.g.
> 5467 -> 7645) and loses format. I've tried several of the
> available tools but with no luck. Acrobat 6.0 has a "save
> as" feature when right clicking a table but that doesn't
> seem to work either. If anyone has faced this before,
> please help me out here before I'm suckered into entering
> these tables manually.
I'm a little rusty with Excel functions, but you can manipulate the numbers
to reverse the order of the digits by using one or more built-in functions.
A macro or auto-format would bring the table back to it's original "look."
Ed Wurster
http://www.eWurster.com/blog/
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