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Hi everyone, my name is Kevin. Today I want to show you how you can edit a PDF using Microsoft Word, and as full disclosure before we jump into this, I work at Microsoft as a full-time employee.
All right, well let's jump on the desktop. Here I am on my desktop, and I have a PDF file called certificate. I'm going to go ahead and click on that and I have this nice certificate that I found online. It's a PDF file and I run a company and I have some employees who I want to celebrate. You know, instead of giving people a pay raise, I'm just going to give him this paper certificate and hopefully that makes them satisfied with this company. No, really, I'd probably just give him more money, I think that makes people happy and maybe throw the certificate in too, but here's the certificate and unfortunately, it's a PDF and I can't edit the name of the recipient. I can't type anything down here. I can't type in a date. It's kind of annoying how it's hard to edit PDFs, I wish I could just open it and just start typing. But luckily, it's pretty easy to do if you have Microsoft Word.
OK, so I'm going to go ahead and let's close this certificate for now, and I'm going to open up Microsoft Word. Now this is the latest version of Word. This comes with Office 365, but if you have an older version as well, this should probably work, I can't guarantee it, I just know that it works with the most recent recent copy of Word, so I'm on the Word home screen here, and it's actually very simple to open this PDF. So, I'm going to click on the certificate, and I could just drag that over to Word. As an alternative, I could also go to open, and I could find where the file is on my PC, but I'm going to go with the easy approach. We're simply going to drag and drop the certificate over.
Now I get this long message here and I know it's very easy to just always click OK when you see a message, but basically all it's telling me that it's going to do is it's going to take that PDF and it's going to convert that into a Word document, and it'll be optimized for me to edit. Oooh, edit is what I want to do, that sounds good, and it might not look exactly like the original PDF, especially if the original PDF contains a lot of graphics. OK, sounds reasonable. Let's give it a shot. So, I'm going to click on OK and I could also set it so it never shows me that message again. So, we're going to click on OK, and let's see here.
So, here's the certificate I just showed you as a PDF, and the nice thing now is, look at that. I can just type letters on this PDF. I can modify it. So, let's say for my company, the first winner of the employee of the month is Kevin Stratvert. No better person to win then the owner of the company. Now I'm sure that's going to improve morale of all of my employees, so I'm just going to make sure that's nice and centered. So, there it is, awarded to Kevin Stratvert, and unfortunately, I can't click right down here, so why don't I just copy this text box? And so that way I get that same font and I'm just going to get rid of the underline. We're going to reduce the font size a little bit. Oooh, name of presenter. That's a little awkward because I'm the owner and I'm also the presenter and I gave it to myself. That's really obvious now, but we'll just go with it and then for the date we're going to put in September first. So, we're just going to enter in today's date, September 1st, 2019. And there we have it, so I modified, or I edited this certificate and now what I could do is I could go to file and we're going to go to save as and now what I could do is I could actually save it as a PDF. So maybe I'm going to call this certificate Kevin since it's going to be my certificate and we'll go ahead and click on save. And so now what this has done is it saved a new PDF and I modified it. So here you know it's awarded to me, presented by me, and it has today's date on it.
So that's how you open a PDF using Microsoft Word, how you can edit the PDF using Microsoft Word, and then how you can save your save it as a PDF again using Microsoft Word, so you could open, edit and save and get it back into a PDF format. It's actually really easy to do if you have Word. So yeah, go ahead, go ahead, edit those PDFs. Hopefully this helped you. If it did, please give it a thumbs up, if you want to see more videos like this in the future or other tutorial videos or how to hit that subscribe button, that way you get a notification anytime new content comes out. And lastly, if there's anything else you want to learn about, anything else that you're dying to figure out how to do, leave a comment down below and I'll add it to my list of videos to create in the future. And hey, that's all I have for you today, hope you enjoyed it, I'll see you next time, bye.