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Hi everyone, my name is Kevin. Today I want  to show you how you can edit a PDF using   Microsoft Word, and as full disclosure before  we jump into this, I work at Microsoft as a   full-time employee. All right, well  let's jump on the desktop. Here I   am on my desktop, and I have  a PDF file called certificate. I'm going to go ahead and click on that and I  have this nice certificate that I found online. It's a PDF file and I run a company and I  have some employees who I want to celebrate. You know, instead of giving people a  pay raise, I'm just going to give him   this paper certificate and hopefully that  makes them satisfied with this company. No, really, I'd probably just give him  more money, I think that makes people happy   and maybe throw the certificate in too, but here's  the certificate and unfortunately, it's a PDF and   I can't edit the name of the recipient. I can't  type anything down here. I can't type in a date.   It's kind of annoying how it's hard to edit PDFs,  I wish I could just open it and just start typing. But luckily, it's pretty easy to  do if you have Microsoft Word. OK, so I'm going to go ahead and let's close  this certificate for now, and I'm going to   open up Microsoft Word. Now this is the latest  version of Word. This comes with Office 365,   but if you have an older version as well, this  should probably work, I can't guarantee it, I just   know that it works with the most recent recent  copy of Word, so I'm on the Word home screen   here, and it's actually very simple to open this  PDF. So, I'm going to click on the certificate,   and I could just drag that over to Word. As an  alternative, I could also go to open, and I could   find where the file is on my PC, but I'm going  to go with the easy approach. We're simply going   to drag and drop the certificate over. Now I get  this long message here and I know it's very easy   to just always click OK when you see a message,  but basically all it's telling me that it's going   to do is it's going to take that PDF and it's  going to convert that into a Word document,   and it'll be optimized for me to edit. Oooh,  edit is what I want to do, that sounds good,   and it might not look exactly like the original  PDF, especially if the original PDF contains a   lot of graphics. OK, sounds reasonable. Let's  give it a shot. So, I'm going to click on OK and   I could also set it so it never shows me that  message again. So, we're going to click on OK,   and let's see here. So, here's the certificate I  just showed you as a PDF, and the nice thing now   is, look at that. I can just type  letters on this PDF. I can modify it. So,   let's say for my company, the first winner of  the employee of the month is Kevin Stratvert. No better person to win then  the owner of the company. Now I'm sure that's going to improve morale  of all of my employees, so I'm just going   to make sure that's nice and centered. So,  there it is, awarded to Kevin Stratvert,   and unfortunately, I can't click right down  here, so why don't I just copy this text box?   And so that way I get that same font and I'm  just going to get rid of the underline. We're   going to reduce the font size a little  bit. Oooh, name of presenter. That's a   little awkward because I'm the owner and I'm  also the presenter and I gave it to myself. That's really obvious now, but   we'll just go with it and then for the date  we're going to put in September first. So,   we're just going to enter in today's date,  September 1st, 2019. And there we have it,   so I modified, or I edited this certificate  and now what I could do is I could go to file   and we're going to go to save as and now what I  could do is I could actually save it as a PDF. So maybe I'm going to call this   certificate Kevin since it's going to be my  certificate and we'll go ahead and click on save. And so now what this has done is it  saved a new PDF and I modified it. So here you know it's awarded to me, presented  by me, and it has today's date on it. So that's how you open a PDF using Microsoft Word,  how you can edit the PDF using Microsoft Word,   and then how you can save  your save it as a PDF again   using Microsoft Word, so you could open, edit  and save and get it back into a PDF format. It's actually really easy to do if you have Word.  So yeah, go ahead, go ahead, edit those PDFs. Hopefully this helped you. If it  did, please give it a thumbs up,   if you want to see more videos like this in  the future or other tutorial videos or how to   hit that subscribe button, that way you get  a notification anytime new content comes out. And lastly, if there's anything else you  want to learn about, anything else that   you're dying to figure out how to  do, leave a comment down below and   I'll add it to my list of videos  to create in the future. And hey,   that's all I have for you today, hope you  enjoyed it, I'll see you next time, bye.