Quite a few apps, including some free ones, turn your PDFs into editable Word docs or image files that you can embed. It's easier than you may think.

Topline Portable Document Format files, or PDFs, are easily presented and exchanged across softwares—even Word—so here’s how to convert a PDF into a Microsoft Word document.

You can convert a PDF file to a Word document using various methods, including online converters or software tools.

To convert PDFs into Word files and on Mac, you should edit them with Google Docs or other third-party applications.

Here is a tutorial on how you can convert an ODT document to Word (DOC, DOCX) format on Windows with free software or an online tool.

Businesses often convert PowerPoint slide shows to Word documents for handouts that supplement presentations. These PowerPoint documents consist of slides as images, which you cannot edit directly.

Word will launch and a pop-up message will appear, stating that the program will convert your PDF to an editable document and that the results may be different from the source file.