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RIVKA5FAA
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May 18, 2021
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Shortcut keys to mark a comment complete

  • May 18, 2021
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Hi,

I need to mark multiple comments in a pdf as complete. 

To do this, I need to click on the 3 dots (menu) next to the comment> Set status> Completed. 

With over a 100 comments, this is tedious. 

What are the shortcut keys to do this.

 

thanks

    Correct answer defaultab8zprm30hil

    I found this as a shortcut to checkmark a comment. It's still not just one key command, but is quicker. 

    1. Click 3 dots in a given comment
    2. Press E key

    3. Press M key.

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    Can of Creative
    Participating Frequently
    April 27, 2023

    In current version (Acrobat Pro 2023), it's SHIFT+K, or you can go into Preferences > Commenting > √ Show checkbox in comment note.

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      Askitbasket
      Participant
      April 28, 2023

      Thanks but this is a shortcut for showing the checkbox state.

      The checkbox feature is far less useful than marking comments as complete, since the checkbox is only visible to the same user who put them in.

       

      For example, if I am working through a huge pdf of revisions to a large report and, for whatever reason, I need to hand the job over to someone else to finish off, my checkmarks will have been a complete waste of time as the next user won't be able to see them.

      IF, however I mark the comments as complete as I go, then the next user can see these

      ...BUT there is currently no shortcut to mark the comments as complete, nor is there a reliable way to convert marked checkboxes into a state of completion for the comment.

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        defaultab8zprm30hilCorrect answer
        Participant
        March 25, 2024

        I found this as a shortcut to checkmark a comment. It's still not just one key command, but is quicker. 

        1. Click 3 dots in a given comment
        2. Press E key

        3. Press M key.

          Amal.
          Amal.
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          June 25, 2021

          Hi RIvka

           

          Hope you are doing well and sorry for the delay in response. I hope you would be able to fix it by now.

           

          If you still need help, Please open the PDF with all the comments and then select all the comments by pressing the CTRL Key in Windows or CMD Key in Mac and right click on one of them and from the context menu > Set Status > Complete.

          It will change the status of all the selected comments in one click. 

           

          Regards

          Amal

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          Askitbasket
          Participant
          April 14, 2023

          This is still tedious. Why not a shortcut? or a box, like there is with checkmarks (which it seems have been semi-deprecated?)

           

          Moreover, with your suggested method, if you try to leave out comments that you don't want to mark as complete but that sit in between ones that you do, these still get marked as complete despite them not being selected.

           

          Be better please, Adobe.

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            defaultl9afpl6b9ewu
            Participant
            April 19, 2023

            I really need an quick, easy way to mark comments as completed also, Adobe. I have over 700 comments in this PDF that I need to go through—each of them is an edit to a document. Having to mark them as completed this way is completely tedious.

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