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  1. Select your Marquee Tool and draw a box around the object you want cropped.

    The marquee tool, a blue magnifying glass in the bottom left corner of a box.
  2. Select Edit PDF Tool, then at the top of the page, select Crop Pages.

    Edit PDF tool with a pink page icon. A rectangle is on top. Below there is a square to the left and three dashes to the right.Crop Pages button with a blue page icon and a crop symbol.
  3. Highlight your object again and press enter.

    Example of a course syllabus' Student Learning Outcomes
  4. In the Set Page Boxes, change the numbers in Top, Bottom, Left, and Right until boxes. Try to line up the cropping lines are lined up to the edges of the object. Click OK.

    Set Pages Boxes with the margin numbers changed

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  1. Click the Organize File Tool and choose split.

    Organized Pages Tool Icon. It is a green rectangle and a green arrow pointing down to the silhouette of a box.The Organize Pages tools with Split as the fourth tool. Its icon looks like a pair of scissors.
  2. In the Split By menu, choose the file size and limit the a low number of MBs in size you want your files to bemegabytes.

    The Split by Options set for File Size at 2 Megabites.

Section 6.10: Exporting PDFs to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

  1. Go to the File Tab. Click Export to the software of your choice. Save your file and click Settings.

    The File Tab in Acrobat with Save As highlighted in blue.The Settings button located under the File Name and Save as Type boxes.
  2. If you want your document to have nice word flow from one page to another, click Retain Flowing Text. If you want to have your text appear in a blocky format, click Retain Page Layout

  3. If there were comments in the file and you want them transferred to MS Word, Excel or PowerPointto transfer comments from your project, click Include Comments.

  4. If your PDF has images, click Include Images. If your PDF has images of text or “scanned” text and you want to change ityour “scanned” text, click Recognize Text if . If needed and , set your language to the one you prefer.

    The Save As DOCX Settings with all sections checked. Retain Page Layout is not checked.

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