4 Different Ways to Insert PDF into Word Document
Word Documents are a great file format for presenting a wide variety of different document types. You may ask how do I insert an entire PDF into a Word document. It is not difficult to insert PDF into Word, but maybe a bit time consuming if you don't have the right tool. You can either choose to insert PDF into Word as the editable content or insert PDF into Word as image, let's take a look at the following four solutions.
How to Insert PDF into Word as Editable Content
PDFelement is the tool that can help you insert PDF into word document as the editable content with high quality, so you can edit the content in word document directly. Here are the steps to follow.
Step 1. Convert a Multi-Page PDF
After opening PDFelement, you can drag and drop your PDF into the program to open it. Go to the "Home" tab and then click on "To Word". After the conversion, the converted word document is editable.
Step 2. Insert PDF into Word Document
Then you can open both of the converted word document and your target word document, copy the content in it and paste it into your target word document to insert the editable content.
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Insert PDF into Word as an Image
If you do not need to edit the PDF content in the word document, then PDFelement can also help you insert PDF into word as an image. And before inserting it, you can use PDFelement to edit text in PDF directly.
Step 1. PDF to Image
Drag and drop your PDF file into PDFelement, click the "Convert" >"To Image" button, in the new pop window, choose the output image format as you want.
Step 2. Insert Image into Word
Open the target word document, click the "Insert" > "Pictures" button to choose the converted image to be inserted. In this way, it can help you insert PDF into Word as image.
Insert PDF into Word with Google Docs
Google Docs can also help you insert PDF into Word document. Here are the steps to follow.
Step 1. Upload PDF
Log in your Google Drive account, then drag and drop your PDF file into your account.
Step 2. Open PDF with Google Docs
Right-click the PDF file to choose "Open with" > "Google Docs".
Step 3. Insert PDF into Word
Once the document is opened, you can click the "File" > "Download" > "Microsoft Word (.docx)".
Note: This method may not help you get the same formatting as in the original PDF file. What's more, it’s slow to insert due to the file size limitation, and you still have to combine your Word document after opening the PDF in Docs. So the best method to insert PDF into Word document as editable content is using PDFelement.
Insert PDF into Word as an Object
Microsoft Word program can help you insert PDF into Word doc directly, however it is only inserted as an object that cannot be edited. Here are two steps to insert PDF into Word document as an object.
Step 1. Embed PDF in Word
While working on your document, click "Insert" > "Object". In the object dialogue box, click "Create from File" and then click "Browse" to find the PDF document you want to insert. Click "Insert". This is how to insert PDF into Word as an embedded object. And if you edit the original PDF in the future, it wont be reflected in the word document.
Step 2. Display as Icon
If you want to display the PDF icon, check "Display as icon". Leave this option unchecked if you want to display the first page of the document. Then click "OK" to finish. This is the method to insert PDF into Word as a linked object, and any changes in your original PDF file can be applied to the word document.
Tips: Edit PDF before/after Inserting PDF into Word
Follow the above steps to add PDF to Word as an object. If you want to edit it after you insert it, you'll need to have a PDF editor installed to read or edit PDF files before or after adding your PDF to word. This is why it is important to use PDFelement, which enables you to read, annotate and edit PDF documents.
- It comes with many tools that make it easy for you to combine, edit, transform and organize your PDF files with ease.
- It is very useful in converting PDF files to other formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more.
- It can also be used to insert new pages into a PDF or existing pages from other PDFs, as well as combine multiple file formats like Word or Excel and PDF.
- Despite all of its impressive features, PDFelement is very easy to use, even for a beginner.
- It also comes with the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature that enables scanned PDFs or image-based PDFs to be transformed into editable and searchable text. It is essential to perform OCR on any PDF document before converting it to editable formats such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
- Best of all, your document's formatting will not be altered in any way.
Edit PDFs Like a Word Document
Before or after inserting PDF into word, you may need to read or even modify the content of the PDF document. PDFelement helps you do this easily. It not only provides various reading modes for you to choose from, but also allows you to edit a PDF like you would a word file.
Attach Word to PDF
PDF format is also one of the best formats when it comes to the layout and presentation of your document. If you want to display both Word and PDF documents together, you also have the option of attaching the word file to a PDF file instead of using the attachment feature of PDFelement. Click here to know how to add an attachment to a PDF. Now you can easily attach PDF to Word, or vice versa!
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