Acrobat only cares about duplicating the exact layout, and not about generating a properly-structured, sanely-editable Word doc. Word displays the Styles and Formatting task pane. Choose Styles and Formatting from the Format menu. When this occurs, any other document elements that used that style automatically change to reflect the newly applied format.
Delete all the personal information that is. This happens because Word can absorb explicit formatting changes into the underlying style.
This is all because Acrobat tries very hard to force the document to slavishly match the PDF layout by setting up all kinds of extreme formatting which often breaks down due to differences in fonts, etc., or if you edit the doc in any way. From the Word Preferences dialog box, select User Information under the Personal Settings heading. There may be some hidden formatting fields that you need to get rid of. Likewise, if there are any tables, you'll need to edit the table cell formatting. That'll show a dialog where you'll need to reset some strange Indentation and Spacing settings. In Word, position your cursor to the paragraph before and after those gaps and click the little arrow pointing southeast at the bottom, right corner of Home, Paragraph section of ribbon. They're indirectly caused by some obscure paragraph formatting that Acrobat sets up on the surrounding paragraphs. The following macro will quickly remove all text boxes in your document: Sub RemoveTextBox1 () Dim shp As Shape For Each shp In ActiveDocument.Shapes If shp.Type msoTextBox Then shp.Delete Next shp End Sub. Probably you "can't do anything about" the gaps because they're not actually on the page. If you want to get rid of only the text boxes, then the quickest solution is to use a macro. Align and format paragraphs +R Right-align a paragraph Ctrl+Shift+M Indent a paragraph from the left +Shift+M Remove a paragraph indent from the.