I would like to include a series of pdf pages in my Word document. I want Word to automatically create the page numbers for the entire document. How can I do this?



Thanks,
Art

You can import PDF pages by using Insert/Object then browsing to the PDF files.

Auto page numbering is often easiest within the footer. Open the footer and use Insert/Page Number. If your document has no section breaks, automatically generated numbers will appears wherever you place the first one in the footer. You can format the numbering by goign the same route, Insert/Page number, but then selecting Format page number.

Best,
Ulodesk

That is only useful for Objects that span no more than a single page. Multi-page PDFs cannot be displayed as such in Word; for these, you need to either split the PDFs into multiple single-page documents or copy & paste the individual page contents into Word.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks Ulodesk and Paul. Both are helpful comments. I will be able to use the Insert Object method.

I tried copy/paste but lost the formatting (columns).

One followup: the text in the imported pdf object is fuzzy, not nearly as sharp as the original pdf. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Art

Welcome to PDF inserting. Yes, fuzziness.

First, check the PDF settings for resolution; a low resolution will contribute mightily to fuzziness. Beyond this, in my experience the route to optimum sharpness is a bit winding. I provide below a little guide I made for my department.

Best,
Ulodesk

While it produces unquestionably better quality to export the PDF to PNG files rather than JPEGs, the PNGs can remain quite large files. With Photoshop, there is a way, admittedly slightly longer, to reap the benefits of both quality and smaller size. My tests show a potentially significant file size decrease from the PNG route with similar quality.

1. Bring the PDF into Photoshop
2. Check the image size and adjust, if necessary, to fit on your Word page.
3. Crop and/or rotate to re-establish level horizontal if necessary
4. Open levels and adjust, if necessary. If you scanned from hard copy, this may be necessary in order to restore the type density. Depending on your document, you may find that input settings of about 70 for both black point and mid-tone, and perhaps 245 for white, may be about right (or use the black and/or white set-point droppers).
5. Export the document as a JPEG. If it is all text and line art, a quality setting of 4 may be adequate.
6. Open the new JPEG, enlarge the view, and check for quality.
7. A final check may be made by importing the JPEG into your doc, or a blank Word page, and printing the single page.