I found an old PDF that I needed to update. So I copied and pasted it into my MS Word (2007). But, the problem is that when I pasted it, it pasted all 185 footers as well.



PROBLEM: I want to delete ALL 185 FOOTERS. -
Normally I would just click Find and Replace, enter all the data and Im done. But this time, there is a VARIABLE (the page number) and then after it there is more text, and finally the date.

So, How can I ?... Find and Replace what use to be on two separate lines in my MS Word Doc Footers BEFORE I made it into a PDF, of which I dont have the original any longer, so I copied the PDF and pasted it back into MS Word but ... (somewhere along the line, I think this is becoming a run on sentence...)

www.SampleWebSite.com Copyright © Its Mine!, 2007 Page 11 of 185
Version Release Date:12/2/12

NOTE 1: The footer contained two lines, as indicated above.
NOTE 2: Each page has a different page number; I tried to use the "*" and the "?" marks as the wild card, but evidently, MS Word does not understand them.as indicated below:
“www.SampleWebSite.com Copyright © Its Mine!, 2007 Page ?? of 185Version Release Date:12/2/12”, and,
“www.SampleWebSite.com Copyright © Its Mine!, 2007 Page *of 185Version Release Date:12/2/12”,

So, What is/are the best way(s) to accomplish this, without my having to address this 185 times? Is there a smart way to do it?
Thanks!

Hi
If all your footers are linke then all you should have to do is remove one footer and all the linked ones will disappear also.
Good luck.
Tony

but ... When you paste a PDF into word, it does not re-install the Footers, and there really isn't any kind of links, it just sees them as text.

So they end up being sandwiched between the 1st page, and next, and so forth ... in my case, all 185 pages.

One end-around would be to do a "FIND", then I'd have to manually delete all 185 of them with: F8, highlight (to the end), DELete -Or-

I suppose I could just create a macro to do the above, But I'd STILL have to hit the Macro Key Combo 185 times to delete the mess. The point is, I just don't want to have to go through 185 steps of anything. I'm sure there is a solution for this I just need to find it. <sigh>

Now it's become the principal of the matter! But thanks for the reply!

If it would help to have your document in Word, I have seen software online that converts a PDF to a Word file.

If you have the knowledge to write a macro all you need to do is encase your code in a For....Next loop. For example:

Sub MacroName()
For count = 1 to 185
Put code here
Next Count
End Sub

The will run 185 times. If what you are searching for is the same on each page then this should work for you.
Good luck.
Tony