Adobe Acrobat 8 3D - Manual (Page 155)

148 ADOBE ACROBAT 3D VERSION 8
User Guide
A menu appears when you hold the pointer over selected text.
You can paste copied text into comments and bookmarks as well as into documents authored in other applications.
Copy tables and charts
1 Using the Select tool , highlight the entire table or the rows and columns to be copied.
2 Right-click/Control-click the selection, and choose one of the following options:
Copy As Table Preserves formatting when you copy the table to Excel. In Excel, use the Paste Special command and
select XML Spreadsheet.
Save As Table Lets you paste the table to a new file.
Open Table In Spreadsheet Opens the table in a CSV-compliant application, such as Excel.
To copy a table in RTF, drag the selected table into an open document in the target application.
Copy images
You can copy and paste individual images from a PDF to the clipboard (Windows only), to another application, or
to a file using the Select tool.
If you cannot select an image because of overlapping text, choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Acrobat > Prefer­
ences (Mac OS), select General on the left, and select the Make Select Tool Select Images Before Text option.
1 Using the Select tool , do one of the following:
• To select the entire image, click it or drag a rectangle around it.
• To select a portion of an image, hold the pointer over the image until the crosshairs icon appears, and then
drag a rectangle around the portion.
Note: To deselect an image and start over, click outside it.
2 Copy the image:
• Choose Edit > Copy, and then choose Edit > Paste to paste the image in an open document in another application.
• Right-click/Control-click the image and choose an option to copy the image to the clipboard or to a new file.
• Drag the image into an open document in another application.
See also
“Export images to another format” on page 146