If you haven't, do that to start with.įirst thing to try, start Word in 'Safe Mode'.
I assume that it is safe to say that at some point during your problem you have rebooted your computer at least once or twice. Have you always had this problem, or did it work properly for a while and the start 'messing up'? Use?) an additional Office 'addin'? You could be having some sort of weird software interaction unique to your computer. Is there any chance there is something different about your computer, an additional unique tool, a different printer (for home You are all using the same model laptop, with presumably the same software image installed including the same printer drivers. Word simply extracts the text layer and makes it editable. Instead it depends on a special PDF format that puts images and text into 2 separate 'layers' in the file. In an image / picture and convert them into individual character. A feature where the program can recognize letters by their shape When I first heard about it I thought it was performing OCR, Optical Character Recognition. Word 2013 introduced a function where it can now open PDF files and sometimes provide editable text.
