How to Export PDF Files from Acrobat to Excel and from Excel to Acrobat?

The software packed up in the Microsoft suite, like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook are very much capable of editing, arranging, plotting, and performing arithmetic operations on contents and data. This is what they are mostly used for.

Now consider, you have got a PDF file and you the contents are not well sorted in it. So you need to transfer the contents to the MS Excel for the additional operations to perform on it.

Practically speaking, it is not possible to import PDF files from Adobe Acrobat to Microsoft Excel or vice-versa. But it is possible to export PDF files from Acrobat to Excel and from Excel to Acrobat.

In this article, we will show you the ways to do that in simpler ways.

Table of Contents:

• How to Export PDF from Acrobat to Excel
• How to Export PDF from Excel to Acrobat

So without wasting any further time, let’s begin.

#1: How to Export PDF from Acrobat to Excel

To perform this conversion task, make sure that you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat and the Microsoft suite. Above all else, ensure that you are familiar with both the software a little bit. You can learn it online reading user manuals or guide.

Read the step-by-step guide below for the conversion:

Step 1. Open the PDF file that you want to export here.

Step 2. Go to the “File” option in the menu bar and select “Export to” from the sub-menu.

Step 3. Choose “Spreadsheet” and then “Microsoft Excel Workbook” options from the consecutive sideways menu.

Step 4.  As soon as the “Save as” screen turns up, you can see the export file name field box and the excel extension xlsx. Enter any name you want but keep the excel extension unchanged.

Step 5. Make sure that the “Save as Type” is set to “Excel Workboot(*xlsx) and then click the “Save” button and the conversion will be completed.

#2: How to Export PDF from Excel to Acrobat

This too is not a complicated method, but you need to be familiar with Excel first. So if you are not, first read the simple user guides of Excel and then venture to perform this task.

The task is explained in the steps below:

Step 1. Open Microsoft Excel and open an Excel Spreadsheet.

Step 2. Go to the toolbar and click on “File”.

Step 3. Next, click the “Export” option from the drop-down menu and choose “Create PDF/XPS” option.

Step 4. Immediately the “Publish as PDF” screen turns up. Here you can see the PDF extension in the “Save as type” panel, and the excel filename with an Acrobat extension of PDF added to it.

Step 5. Now click the “Publish” button and instantly the entire system will switch back to the Acrobat mode, and your worksheet will be shown as an Acrobat PDF file.

Step 6. Go to “File” button and choose “Save as” from the context menu. browse to the target folder where you wish to save the file if necessary. Type a name if you wish. And choose the “Save as Type” option with “Adobe PDF files”.

Step 7. Finally, click the “Save” button and the conversion is finished.

Conclusion:

So you see, the conversions were not that difficult to pull off. And now since you know how to do that, it will be easier for you to edit your PDF file data on the Excel platform or to convert Excel data back to PDF format.

But again and again, I am reminding you the same thing—Both the software should be upgraded or at least the versions should be of the same level. Otherwise, there could be a cross-compatibility issue and the conversion will not be possible since one of the software remains outdated and the other one is upgraded.

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