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I hope (and think) that I'm sending this email as plain text because I know in the 
past I sent one as HTML and got notice. I'm still a newbie with Outlook so bear with 
me.

QUESTION:
 Does anyone else have this problem?  I work in a company that gets RFPs ((Requests 
for Proposals) from companies soliciting business.
Our job is to create a proposal to enter into bidding. These RFPs often have upwards 
of 100+ questions that need our response.
It used to be 10 out of 10 RFPs came to us as Word docs which is fine. We simply plug 
in our answers.
Now, nearly 4 our of 10 RFPs come to us as PDFs.  

Problem--we can't just plug in our answers as we could do when it came as a Word doc.  
Currently we covert it to a Word doc, but as you probably know you end with a huge 
blob of unformatted text that now requires hours of re-formatting.
Usually we can ask the company to send it back as a Word doc.  However, some companies 
say they only have it as a PDF which seems odd since you figure the original document 
must have been created in Word.

Is this a case where companies aren't aware that a PDF isn't as practical as sending 
it in workable format?

And, question #2, is there any way to make a PDF into a Word doc and preserve the 
original look/format. I think I know the answer--the original document may have been 
done in Quark, PageMaker, etc so there would be no way to reverse back to this 
original format.

Thanks in advance..
Ed























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