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From: L Snider
Date: Jun 18, 2018 7:42AM

Hi Steve,

Is this Mac Word? I have had some weird issues recently, including tags
problems that I only had with InDesign to Acrobat DC 2018 (since November)
but they now seem to be happening in 2016
Word Mac (I am on Fast Insider thought so I might be getting these when
most people aren't yet seeing them). I am also now having weird font issues
with PowerPoint going to PDF after their last fast insider update.

Are you on a desktop or device?

Cheers

Lisa

On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 9:42 PM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> Not experiencing this on my Acrobat Pro DC:2018 version with PDFs made
> from Word 2016, Windows 10 operating system.
>
> No problem with Reflow. Graphics are there.
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> I don't know if this is a new problem, but if a Word document contains any
> images, it cannot be viewed in Reflow view after conversion to PDF. After
> selecting the Reflow menu option, the PDF remains in "normal" view and the
> Reflow menu option is now greyed out. This occurs both with Adobe Reader
> and Adobe Acrobat. I am using Word in Office 365.
>
> As a workaround, I tried converting the Word document using Adobe Acrobat
> v9 (yes, I know it's old but it meets our needs). Reflow now works ok but
> Acrobat creates untagged PDFs. I have been through all the settings and I
> can't see anything that would account for this.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this? I am keen to avoid making any changes
> to the document in Acrobat because the client who will be creating the
> documents is not tech savvy and I am trying to write the simplest possible
> procedures for them.
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