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Edit PDFs in Microsoft Word

Working with PDFs has become as common as working with Word docs, but to get the full editing capabilities in Adobe Acrobat you must shell out $449 for the desktop Pro 2017 version, or almost $180 per year for a Pro DC subscription.

While there are plenty of , the simplest solution might be a tool you already use: Microsoft Word 2016. While previous versions of Word let you save a document as a PDF, Word 2016 allows you to open an Adobe formatted file, modify it, and then re-save it back to the PDF format without using Acrobat. Microsoft calls this new feature PDF Reflow,

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