How to Select All the Text in a PDF Document

A Portable Document Format (PDF) may contain text, images and hyperlinks. Although it’s web accessible, it displays text and characters exactly as intended. For this reason, it’s the number one choice for most business and personal use.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

1. Change the page layout to continuous if you use Adobe Reader 7.0. It’s the second icon on the Reader Status Bar.
2. Click "Select" and choose "Edit," then "Select All." A second option is to press the "Ctrl" and "A" buttons at the same time.
3. Make the page layout continuous again and zoom out of the document pane to select several pages. This allows you to view all the pages containing text.
4. Drag the Select tool through all the text you need to select. You can also use the Hand tool to perform this task.
5. Depress the mouse button and drag the cursor to the bottom of the Reader window. It’s important to do this if you need to view text on more pages than you can comfortably view on the document pane.
6. Go to Basic toolbar and choose "Select Text" from the drop-down menu if you use Adobe Acrobat Reader 6. To select all the text in a document, right-click on a word and highlight "Select All" on the shortcut menu.

Tips & Warnings

• If you use Adobe Acrobat 6, quadruple click (four times) on a word. This will select all the text in the document.

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