How to Use the Text Edit Tools in Adobe Acrobat

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The Text Edit tools in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional can be used to make a piece of selected text for editing. The tools are easy to use and will communicate a variety of messages to you or the person editing your document. Follow the steps below to apply the Text Edit tools to your Acrobat PDF.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Step1

Start Adobe Acrobat 8 and open an existing PDF that contains text that you would like to outline before editing using the Text Edit tools.

Step2

Click the "Select" tool from the "Select & Zoom" toolbar. This tool is depicted by a picture of an I-beam and arrow.

Step3

Select the text you would like to suggest for editing by clicking and dragging over the text to highlight it.

Step4

Use the "Text Edits" button on the "Comment & Markup" toolbar to view the drop-down list of text editing options available to you.

Step5

Choose the type of Text Edit tool you would like to use from the drop-down menu by clicking on it. You can choose to replace the selected text, highlight it, add a note to it, insert text at the cursor, underline the selected text or cross out for deletion.

Step6

Make any appropriate notes in the pop-up note that may come up depending on what type of editing tool you choose to use. Close the pop-up note and view the markup selection that now appears over the selected text.