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I am trying to scan a document with Microsoft Office Document Scanning and then I want to be able to edit it. I have route sheets that change constantly and need to update the driving directions. But I can't seem to figure out how to edit the document once it's scanned. I'm new to Office and I've been reading til my eyes are about to pop out! Please help! Would I edit the document in Word, Publisher, Power Point or what? That's IF I can even get it to where I CAN edit it. :o) And when it opens in Word, it is not in the same format at all. I need it to look exactly the same, except for text changes I need to make. But the formatting needs to stay the same
Thank you for any input
Sherry
 
Sherry said:
I am trying to scan a document with Microsoft Office Document Scanning and
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then I want to be able to edit it. I have route sheets that change
constantly and need to update the driving directions. But I can't seem to
figure out how to edit the document once it's scanned. I'm new to Office
and I've been reading til my eyes are about to pop out! Please help! Would
I edit the document in Word, Publisher, Power Point or what? That's IF I
can even get it to where I CAN edit it. :o) And when it opens in Word, it
is not in the same format at all. I need it to look exactly the same,
except for text changes I need to make. But the formatting needs to stay
the same.

Hi Sherry,

scanning produces an image, to edit them you need an image editing program -
that's nothing PowerPoint could do, so this might not be the right newsgroup
for your question. If you performed OCR to convert the scanned text to
editable text, you should be able to import that into Word and edit it
there.

You'll find some basic information here:
http://office.microsoft.com/assista...ID=HP010771031033&CTT=4&Origin=CH010000911033,
but Microsoft Office Document Scanning comes with a good online help, you
should read more there.

If you need routing quite often, you should have a look at Microsoft's
MapPoint (available in two versions for USA an Europe), which integrates
quite well with the other Office programs.

Kind regards,
Ute
 
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