Acrobat Pro DC

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February 20, 2021
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HELP! I'm a serious rookie here. I have a document that "appears" to have multiple text boxes overlapping one another. I can't edit the parts of the document I want because they're in the way??
I am REALLY frustrated with this. I tried exporting as a word document and that only made it worse. ANYTHING you can offer is greatly appreciated. I hope it's "allowed" on this forum but I'm attaching the document. (Ideally I'd be fine with a clean word document but if I can make it a functional fill and sign that'd be great too. Thank you in advance.

Michigan-Standard-Residential-Lease-Agreement.pdf

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gary_sc

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Let me add that the problem appears to be that this document has tight integration of fields and text lines. That coupled with occasional horizontal lines, etc.

Acrobat has to monitor and lock in all items on a page, it cannot distinguish between lines that are underlined, and other horizontal lines so it just boxes them all as independent items. This does make editing more of a challenge but users must go into any editing in a PDF document as an understanding that Acrobat is NOT a word processor NOR a page layout application. It is an application to print to a digital document. Some Editing is possible but only on a limited bases and in this case it is made even more of a challenge with all of the form fields scattered throughout the document.

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Kevin5E33Author

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So is there ANY way to "clean up" the mess that is there? Especially on page 2 as you point out.

gary_sc

Community Expert

Wow, on page 2, that really is a mess. I've never seen anything like that before. You are correct that there are multiple boxes overlaying each other. If this is the first time you've done PDF editing, this probably seems extra dreadful.

Exactly what do you need edited and where?

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Kevin5E33Author

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Thank you. Yes...Page 2 is THE WORST. I just need a "clean" document that I can edit. Either with Acrobat or Word. We're supposed to meet our new tenants tomorrow and I've literally been messing with this ALL day...LOL