When I scan a written document in to Microsoft Word, how do I change it so I can edit the document.?

Answer 1

You can't edit a scanned document, as scanning makes it a picture.

Answer 2

I suspect you're trying to edit the scan -- an image -- of the document rather than actual text. For that you need to run an Optical Character Reading (OCR) program against the scan to convert it to a Word document. Such a program may have come with the scanner. But OCR is an art, not a science. I can almost guarantee that you will have to fix: 1. Mis-converted fonts. 2. Mis-read characters (i for l, for instance, o, 0 or Q mixups) 3. Mangled layout. Hope that helps.

Answer 3

In some cases you can copy and paste it into word.
Then edit it and save as a new document.