Microsoft Word 2013 to Support PDF Editing Natively

The Adobe PDF document format has been an ISO international standard for some time now, which means that anyone can create and edit files in this format. PDF support has been available in Word since Office 2010, but it was limited, since it could only natively save in PDF format, not edit a PDF file.

To get around this, third party plugins were required. Microsoft are now correcting this deficiency for their upcoming Office 2013, which will allow PDF files to be opened and edited natively. Note that according to a source, PDFs may not open with perfect formatting, “the converted document might not have a perfect page to page correspondence with the original. The conversion works best with mostly textual documents”. Additionally, Microsoft is adding a two-page viewing mode for PDF files, as shown below.