
The next screenshot shows the PDF reader toolbar. This section gives an overview of some important functions. They can be accessed through a pin-able toolbar at the top of PDF content. The PDF reader, built into Microsoft Edge, comes with the basic reading and navigation features, as Zoom, Rotate, Fit to page/width, jump to page, and search, among others.
Documentation related to Accessibility scenarios that currently aren't supported can be found on the Microsoft Accessibility Conformance Reports blog. XML Forms Architecture (XFA), is a legacy format of forms that isn't supported in Microsoft Edge. Note the following constraints for the current PDF reader: View Information Rights Management (IRM) protected files View Microsoft Purview Information Protection protected files across business tenants View Microsoft Purview Information Protection protected files in the same business tenant View and print local, online, and embedded PDF files The following table shows which channels and versions of Microsoft Edge support each PDF reader feature. Text-based documents, on the other hand, were consistently rendered faithfully.This article applies to Microsoft Edge version 77 or later. Text blocks and other formatting elements were often displayed out of place, and Word was unable to load a few graphics-heavy PDFs. Documents that contain formatting such as columns, tables, frames, endnotes, and font effects, as well as those with a lot of graphics, take longer to load and may display differently in Word than in the original document. However, Microsoft advises that Word works best with PDFs that are mostly text.
Word makes a copy of the PDF and converts its contents into a format that Word can display. To import a PDF into Word, you open it just like any other document-select File > Open, then browse for your file, select it, and click the Open button. Go there to learn about our testing and how all the competitors performed. This review is part of our best PDF editors roundup. It still can’t compete with a dedicated PDF app like Adobe Acrobat Pro for complex documents, but it’s capable enough for content edits of simple PDFs. Microsoft doesn’t include a PDF editor in its Office suite, but it has made it easier to edit PDFs in Microsoft Word over the last several years. Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide