Controlling where a text box pastes to when copy/pasting

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March 19, 2018
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I have a ton of copy/pasting to do in a large document, and I would like to control where a text box ends up when i paste it, but so far, I can't figure out how to control that. Am i missing a setting somewhere?

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Correct answer try67

I guess my question is more of - why does the software just decide to reformat objects?

It's not. These are not "object". There are no such objects in PDF files.

In fact, Acrobat is trying to bundle streams of text together so they are easier to edit. If you had to edit the actual structure of the PDF file you would need to move each character on its own, more or less.

try67

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No, you're not. You just can't control it.

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Not to be a "seriously" kind of user, but SERIOUSLY? Wow. Maybe you can help me with another question that has happened a number of times...I just manually created a &*%#load of text boxes trying to fix a really ugly table of contents where nothing aligns, and when i saved the document, a bunch of the text boxes became one text box...but in a totally random way (see below - the numbered ones) -

try67

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Again, there's nothing you can about it. Acrobat is not a word processing application and PDF files were never meant to be edited in this way.

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