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BY  PC MAG ME TEAM       MARCH 8, 2015, The PDF (Portable Document Format) is the open standard, created by Adobe in the 1990s, for presenting documents so they look consistent across all platforms and software. DOC (or DOCX) is the format/file extension used mainly by Microsoft Word for its word processing documents. And the two aren't anywhere near compatible. You can't open a DOC file with  Adobe Reader  (or any other free PDF reader like  FoxIt  and  Sumatra ). But, in answer to the often-made query "How do I convert PDFs to Word format"—which really means, "How do I edit a PDF in Word"—the answer these days is easy. Just open the PDF in Word. As of Word 2013 (released in 2012), Microsoft has offered a function called  PDF Reflow . It does what you expect. In Word, you go to the File tab, select open, select any PDF File, and open it right up for editing, as if it was a Word DOCX file. There are limitations, however. The...