Many Thanks to each of the people who responded. I have aborted trying to locate and manipulate the text in the PDF and now converting the PDF files to RTF files. I had spent time tying to use the built-in word find & replace command (Ctrl+F) and the cursor manipulation available using keyboard comm...

This sounds interesting - any suggestions on how I can grab the data from the pdf file? When I use the Adobe search function it highlights the found text but as it is not a text file I am at a loss as to how to grab data from the PDF. I think the answer will come easier once I know how to get the da...

I am a fairly new user but am convinced that MS can help me automate this. I have an excel file that contains thousands of reference numbers and a PDF file that contains those reference numbers plus a piece of information for each reference number that I want to get into my excel file (in the same r...