Thus I told her abort fixing the space issues (which there are many of them) Continue placing the suggestions made by the editor and deleting their correction marks. I finally finished my other project and told her to send the novel to me to figure out.

at that point the problem would shift down to a nother set of words. She found that it was better for her to highlight the two words and delete them then retype them. after pressing space bar a few times all the letters would scrunch together and look very odd like foreign writing. when she tried to fix that the words would not seperate. She came across two words shoved together. My mother then proceeded to making changes and corrections suggested by the editor. So my brother converted her pdf file back into a docx file. At the time I was busy with another project, When she sent the document back she sent it in pdf form. She sent her novel to a well known editor for about 1000 dollars about 6 or so months ago. My mother is an author, I am a typographer so naturally I will be working on her novel as well. but one strange issue I am having currently. I'm sure you have finished this project by now. Acrobat only cares about duplicating the exact layout, and not about generating a properly-structured, sanely-editable Word doc. This is all because Acrobat tries very hard to force the document to slavishly match the PDF layout by setting up all kinds of extreme formatting which often breaks down due to differences in fonts, etc., or if you edit the doc in any way.

There may be some hidden formatting fields that you need to get rid of. Likewise, if there are any tables, you'll need to edit the table cell formatting. That'll show a dialog where you'll need to reset some strange Indentation and Spacing settings. In Word, position your cursor to the paragraph before and after those gaps and click the little arrow pointing southeast at the bottom, right corner of Home, Paragraph section of ribbon. They're indirectly caused by some obscure paragraph formatting that Acrobat sets up on the surrounding paragraphs. Probably you 'can't do anything about' the gaps because they're not actually on the page.

Copy pdf to word with formatting