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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 2, 2011 10:21PM

Birkir,
You can make tables in PDF documents include all of the expected table objects, it doesn't matter whether the document comes from Word, PowerPoint, other applications, or a scanner even. However, there is a difference in the ease of authoring. Powerpoint will give you table tags in the resulting PDF if the standard table object is used, but not headings, which you would need to apply after the pdf is produced. Word can give you the TH tags, but if you create a more complex table from word you may need to add the headers/id or scope information in that PDF.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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