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Participant
August 6, 2021
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How to edit text on Adobe Sign Template?

  • August 6, 2021
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Is there a way to edit the text once a template has been created?  I am able to edit the fields, but don't see any way to edit the actual text on the document.

Correct answer sameer_puri

I just checked another thread created by you and I see that you already have an Acrobat Pro subscription. You can make edits in the document using Acrobat BEFORE uploading them as a template in Adobe Sign. Adobe Sign would let you add and edit any signing options, but wont help you edit the document itself. Hope that makes sense. Let me know if you have any questions regarding the same.

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Participant
February 19, 2025

Any progress? We frequently edit the contract we send to contractors. As we grow we are finding more and more things to add in. It is such a pain to have to re-setup the template every time we need to change one word or add a sentence. 

Participating Frequently
February 19, 2025

Nope! So frustrating 

Participant
September 3, 2024

Is there any solution here? I just spent over an hour uploading and setting up a template with multiple documents to find one small, yet important typo. Are you saying that all of that work is lost and I have to make the edit and reupload the docs and remake the whole template again??

Participant
January 20, 2023

This is such a limitation of the Adobe Sign product. If I create a template with a price on it for example, and it's full of initial fields, signature fields and other signing related items, and I have a price change, I then have to edit the price (one or two digits) in Acrobat and then recreate the ENTIRE TEMPLATE from scratch once again in Adobe Sign. It would be much simpler if I could just edit the text of a template through Adobe Sign. I would even settle for a way to apply a similar template pattern over a new document. This limitation is terribly disappointing. 

Participating Frequently
January 30, 2023

agreed! Terrible interface! 

 

Participant
March 24, 2023

This is a huge problem for me too. My template bad 150 fields.  Is there a workaround?

sameer_puri
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
August 6, 2021

Hi @defaultzsop9kv9asj6 ,

 

The actual text on the document cannot be edited using Adobe Sign. You may need to purchase Acrobat Pro subscription in order to alter the text in the original document.

 

Thanks

Sameer Puri

sameer_puri
Adobe Employee
sameer_puriCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
August 6, 2021

I just checked another thread created by you and I see that you already have an Acrobat Pro subscription. You can make edits in the document using Acrobat BEFORE uploading them as a template in Adobe Sign. Adobe Sign would let you add and edit any signing options, but wont help you edit the document itself. Hope that makes sense. Let me know if you have any questions regarding the same.

Participating Frequently
January 30, 2023

this is a terrible hurdle and should be addressed in future updates! Having to entirely recreate a template's signing properties because of needing to update a few lines of text on the original document is such a time sucker. Not looking forward to it.