The only way to make wholesale edits in a PDF file is to transform it into a word-processing document so that you can edit it in Word, Google Docs, or any other word-processing app.

This problem is a lot easier to solve than the first-the answer is at the end of this story. Here’s another problem: You need to convert a PDF into an image file to display on the web, insert into a document, or upload it to a site that only accepts JPGs. How do you convert the PDF into a document that you can edit to add or remove paragraphs, move text from one part of the document to another, and so on? Someone sends you a PDF file, and you need to make large-scale changes in it, the kind of wholesale editing that's impossible to do in PDF-editor apps like the ones you might use to do light edits to a PDF.

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You can even open Microsoft Word documents, and convert them to PDF.

LibreOffice: LibreOffice is a free, open-source office app that offers a lot of the same features as Microsoft Office.

A paid subscription gets you additional features like unlimited conversions (multiple documents at once), and the ability to convert more types of files. And it really is free if you just need to convert the occasional Word document to PDF. It’s a safe site, it works fast, and it does a pretty good job on Word documents with even a modest amount of formatting.

A Conversion Website: There are a lot of sites out there that offer to convert Word documents to PDF for free.

This works well enough if you have a simple, mostly text Word document without much formatting (and if you already have a Google account).

Google Drive: You can upload a Word document to Google Drive, save it as a Google Document, and then convert it to PDF.

If you don’t have Word, but need to convert a document someone sent you to PDF, you do have a few options:

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