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We're rolling out a new, more intuitive product experience. If the screen shown here doesn’t match your product interface, select help for your current experience.
You can use markup tools to give suggestions for formatting the text, structuring a document, or for providing other edit suggestions. Markups and comments don’t change the actual text in the PDF. See the topics below to see how to:
The Insert text and Replace selected text commenting tools are now available for shared PDF files, making it easier for you to suggest changes and provide feedback directly within the document.
You can use any of the following ways to add markups to your text:
Via Select text tool:
Via Markup tools:
The markup appears in the selected color.
To delete the markup, select the markup and then select delete
Double-click the markup.
It pops open a comment box.
Alternatively, click (Control-click for macOS) on the markup and select the note icon.
It opens a comment box.
Type your message in the comment box and then select Post.
From the Quick actions toolbar, expand the Comments tool menu and then select Replace selected text.
Select the text that you want to replace.
The selected text is crossed out.
Double-click the selected text and then type the text to be inserted or added.
The insertion caret appears. To indicate that a new paragraph should be added, press Enter, and then close the pop-up note without adding text. The paragraph insertion caret appears.
From the Quick actions toolbar, expand the Comments tool menu and then select Insert text.
Type the text that you want to insert.
To indicate that a new paragraph should be added, press Enter, and then close the pop-up note without adding text. The paragraph insertion caret appears.
To indicate that a space should be added, press the spacebar, and then close the pop-up note without adding text. The space insertion caret appears.
You can also indicate text edits by using the Select tool to select text, right-click the selected text, and then choose a text edit annotation.
In Acrobat for Windows®, you can export text edits directly to the Microsoft® Word document that the PDF is based on to revise the source document. To use this feature, you must use PDFMaker to convert your file from Word to PDF. Before you export your text edits, make sure that insertion comments use the exact text, including spaces and paragraph returns, that you want to add. If you add extra instructional words (such as “Add the following:”), these words will have to be deleted manually from the Word document.
In Acrobat Pro on Windows®, you can export text edit comments directly to an Autodesk AutoCAD document that the PDF is based on to incorporate your edits. To use this feature, you must use PDFMaker in AutoCAD to create the PDF.