Article: The Adobe Acrobat Reader app that most people have can open PDFs, but not export them; you must have the paid version of Adobe Acrobat in order to convert PDFs into other documents. You can also download a free trial of Adobe Acrobat from Adobe's download page to temporarily use these features for free. If Adobe Acrobat is your computer's default PDF reader, just double-click the PDF that you want to open. If Adobe Acrobat isn't your computer's default PDF reader, open Adobe Acrobat, click File, click Open..., select your PDF, and click Open. It's on the right side of the window. Clicking this prompts the "Export PDF" section to open on this side of the window. This option is at the bottom of the "Export PDF" section. A drop-down menu will appear. It's in the drop-down menu. It's a blue button below the "Export PDF" section. Doing so will prompt a File Explorer (Windows) or Finder (Mac) window to open. Click a folder to which you want to save the converted file. You'll do this on the left side of the window. On a Mac, click the Where drop-down box and then click a location. You can also rename the file on this page. It's at the bottom of the window. This saves the converted PDF file in your selected file location. You can open it in Excel by double-clicking it.

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Make sure that you have the paid version of Adobe Acrobat. Open your PDF in Adobe Acrobat. Click Export PDF. Click the "Convert to" drop-down box. Click Microsoft Excel. Click Convert. Select a save location. Click Save.