What is the easiest way to insert a PDF page in a Word file?

Let me explain; I have a PDF document (some legal stuff), not made by me. The author of the document has no objections, and I need to insert a few pages of that document in a Word file I'm writing (in an Appendix). What would be the easiest way to do that ? (Export to HTML and then insert a whole image is the only way I could think of. Anyone got any better ideas ?)

This is pretty old, but if you split the pages out of the entire pdf, you can insert - object - create from file

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I don't know about the easiest but the highest fidelity would probably be to load the PDF file into Adobe Illustrator, save the page as an EPS file, and insert that ("Insert" -> "Picture" -> "From file. ") onto a blank Word page.

Thank you. I didn't have Illustrator but I used Acrobat (not the Reader) and exported the pdf to an eps file. It worked and the text of the resulting page is so sharp and legible - much more than taking a screenshot and copy pasting it.

While you can create an image and then insert it, it will likely look of poor quality (pixelation). I don't know if you have a requirement that the document you're working on be completed in a Word-compatible format, but if you have a PDF editor I would complete the document (possibly using blank spacer pages if you need accurate page numbering), use a PDF printer to turn it into a PDF, and then splice in the extra pages afterwards. Not sure about easiest, but it'll probably have the highest quality. Easiest would probably be to open the PDF, hit PrntScrn , paste into Paint, crop borders, then copy+paste from paint to Word.

The Paint version included with Windows 7 supports cropping - You can use a program called Paint.Net in previous versions of windows.

I crop all the time in Paint for XP. Get the picture in Paint, ctrl-A to select the whole picture and move the picture to crop on the top left of the screen. Then find the "one pixel" horizontal and vertical adjustments to crop the rest of the picture. It only takes a second or two.

@wbeard52 I still use that method in Windows 8. It's easier of you use the bottom right corner to do both horizontal and vertical adjustments at once.

I do this frequently.

1. Open the pdf in Adobe Acrobat.
2. Select "Document", "OCR Text Recognition", "Recognize Text Using OCR"
3. Wait for Adobe to scan and format the pdf into text.
4. Highlight the desired text and cut/paste it into the word document.
5. Review and correct spelling and formatting that may have been lost in the OCR conversion.

This only works with text. You will still want to insert graphic pdf's as pictures.

You might have faced difficulty in copy pasting from PDF to Word (MS Office 2007) while preparing Report and Your "Research Papers" :-P. Here I am providing an easy tutorial for doing that in an easier way.

1. Open a Blank New Document
2. Copy and paste the content from PDF to Word document.
3. Select the content and press "ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+S"
4. A New window will be appeared on the left side. This is called "Styles" window.
5. Select "Clear all" options from that.
6. Now press "CTRL+F".
7. Select "Replace" in the newly opened window.
8. Type "^p" in "Find What" area.
9. Type a "SPACE" (Not the word Space) in the "Replace with" area.
10. Click on "Replace All"
11. Click "OK".
12. Clcik "Close".
13. You have done with that.
14. "Happy Copy Pasting"

Note: By seeing the number of steps, you may feel that it is difficult and I will go with the old "Delete Space" Method. But if you try it once, you will see it very easy and useful. It is suitable for big document. Always do this formatting work in a new Blank document, otherwise it may affect the report which you are preparing.