I copy text from Adobe and paste to Word and get a row of boxes instead of letters.  How can I get the text?
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I also do this but I have never faced this problem, I am using acrobeat reader 5.0 and MS word 2000. Try to follow 2nd answer, that is a new thing which I did not know and tell me too thru email or IM, if it succeeds or not. I shall be thankful to u.
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if you're using adobe acrobat reader you can use the text select tool and highlight the text you want.\n\nIf you have adobe acrobat you can use the object tool and select all the text.
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for you to use cut and copy, you should know where to paste that item ...one short cut for copying will be highlighting (making this/these item/s appear dark) what you wanted to copy ( a word, a sentence or a picture) and hit cntrl+c (short cut for copy) on your keyboard and go to the page you wanted it to be pasted, like notepad in accessories under Programs in start menu and hit ctrl+V (shortcut for paste) and viola, you should have the copied item there
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How To Copy and Paste: \nTake your mouse, and place your cursor at the beginning of the text in the box below, then click and hold the left mouse button, while pulling your mouse over the text. This should highlight the text. Now release the left mouse button. Now, with the cursor over the highlighted text, right click the mouse for options, and select 'copy'. Now over the empty box below, right click your mouse again, and select 'paste' and you will have copied and pasted the text
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You can copy text in most applications by:\n\n- Highlighting the text, then hold CTRL and hit C\n- Highlighting the text, right-click it, then click COPY\n\nYou can paste text in most applications by:\n\n- Placing the cursor where you want to paste the text, then hold CTRL and hit V\n- Right-clicking where you want to paste the text, then click PASTE
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Use Microsoft Word\nIn the OPEN dialogue window choose "Recover text from any file" under FILES OF TYPE. This will open any text in the Publisher document but the formatting will be lost.
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Go to "Programs... Accessories... System Tools..." and run the "Character Map" Windows applet.  You can select different fonts, then select the various accented characters by double clicking on them or pressing the 'Select' button.\n\nThey will be added to the "Characters to Copy" edit box that you can copy to the clipboard and paste into your document. (i.e. Notepad text, E-mail, Web form, etc.)
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hold ALT + SHIFT + CTRL + !\n\nthis works in microsoft word\n\nTry ALT + SHIFT + CTRL and press different key's to see what you come up with (It's Fun)¿
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I have a few suggestions:\n\nIt sounds as though the OCR software is able to convert the file to text, but it can’t export it to Word. If that’s the case you can simply copy the text it displays after the conversion and paste it into a new Word document (you can then save it from the ‘File’ menu).\n\nIf it doesn’t convert the text try uninstalling and reinstalling the OCR software (you may want to reinstall all of your scanner’s software).\n\nIf that doesn’t help you could try to use different OCR software. A free one can be found at the link below. Scroll to the bottom of the page to download the freeware version.\nhttp://www.simpleocr.com/\n\nHope this helps!
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to do something like that in word you would have to convert the text into a table (found under the table menu) then sort the table (sort is also found in the table menu)
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Conversion to Word or Excel is not possible. However if the copy feature of the .pdf file hasn't been disabled, you can copy and paste from .pdf to other file types. Quet often Copy..Paste feature doesn't dive very satisfactory answer. Needs a lot of work to fix after you paste the data.
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Use this Word macro to paste unformatted text quickly and easily:\nhttp://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1043909.html\n\nPaste text without the formatting into a Word document:\nhttp://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA010429611033.aspx\n\nMake Word's Default Paste Unformatted:\nhttp://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,427342,00.asp
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There is Window Object which can be used to check the text copied to the Buffer.\nThe keyword through which you can get the text at buffer is  window.clipboardData.getData('Text').\n<script>\nfunction test(){\nvar t= window.clipboardData.getData('Text');\nif(t.length > 100)\n  alert("greater then 100 characters in your buffer");\nelse\n  alert("allowed to do whatever you want");\n}\n</script>\n\nUse this javascript onpaste method.Few more things you may have to do , as onpaste may not always .
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When you press the "print screen" key your computer takes a "picture" of what is on the screen and puts it on the paste board.  If you open Word you should then be able to paste what was on the screen, and then print it.
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I think your best bet would be to just copy and paste.  You might lose your formatting, but if you don't mind rearranging some stuff, that'll work.  On the second toolbar from the top, there is a button that says "Select Text."  Click that, and the little hand goes away, and you now can select the text you want.  After you've picked what you need, click copy, and then paste it into Word.  Hope that's what you needed!
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You could copy the text into your Word Processor and then print. You can do the same with images.
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Using the mouse:\n\n1. Select the text to be copied by pressing the left mouse button and dragging over the text without leaving the mouse button.\n2. Right click on the selected text and click copy. Or click on the copy icon on the toolbar.\n3. Click on the window / place to paste the copied text, and then right click and click on paste. Or click on the toolbar button for paste.\n\nUsing the keyboard:\n\n1. Select the text by positioning the cursor to the beginning of the text to be copied and while pressing shift, keep pressing the right arrow till the complete text to be copied is selected.\n2. Press ctrl + c on your keyboard. Alternatively, press ctrl + insert.\n3. Move the cursor to the place where you want to paste the just copied text.\n4. Press ctrl + v on your keyboard. Alternatively, press shift + insert.\n\nTo press two keys at the same time, press the function key such as ctrl or shift first, and then the other key, such as c or v or insert.