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Find and Replace

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
June 20, 2020
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I just installed Acrobat pro - non subscription- on my Macbook. I meet all the system requirements. I purchased this to work on a personal project researching medica records. I had been using Acrobat Reader find and replace feature with no issues. After installing the Pro version the find feature does not work properly. It finds all kinds of incorrect words and few of the ones I asked for. Anybody know whats happening?

Ken

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JR Boulay

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"That's my problem. In the reader version it works fine."

As already said above: the Find & Replace function does not exist in Acrobat Reader.

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JR Boulay

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"But as far as I can tell Adobe doesn't sell the stand alone version of Acrobat anymore."

The standalone version of Acrobat Pro is "Acrobat Pro 2020" (previously "Acrobat Pro 2017).

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Just Shoot Me

Legend

Good to know. When I went to the Adobe site all I got was You already have Acrobat with your subscription.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

For Find and replace in Acrobat Pro DC.

Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+f

Edit Menu > Find (Magnify glass).

https://www.google.com/search?q=Find+and+replace+in+Acrobat+Pro+DC&oq=Find+and+replace+in+Acrobat+Pro+DC&aqs=chrome..69i57.9904j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Just Shoot Me

Legend

Please state the Exact Version of Acrobat you installed. you find that by going to the Help menu and selecting eithe about Acrobat or System Info and post the exact version number.

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ken.brownAuthor

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Hope these work. I'm relativey new at this...thanks for helping.

Just Shoot Me

Legend

First what you posted, correctly by including it in the body of the text, are pictures of you screen. In all modern Operating systems there is a way to take a screen shot of what is displayed on you screen.

On a Mac there is a Key combo, Shift + Command + the number 4 keys then Draw a rectangle around what you want the screen shot of.

And on Window you use the Snip & Sketch or a great screen capture program called GreenShot which is donationware.

As to your screen shot posts you have the newest version of Acrobat Reader installed but the Acrobat Pro DC is an older point release.

Newest is.

But as far as I can tell Adobe doesn't sell the stand alone version of Acrobat anymore. It is now only by subscription.

Did you buy your copy of Acrobat Pro 2020 from Adobe directly?

You can get rid of the Reader version since you have the pro version.

try67

Community Expert

There's no Find & Replace command in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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ken.brownAuthor

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Acrobat reader DC..........

try67

Community Expert

Right...

Just Shoot Me

Legend

I moved your post over from the poorly named Community Help forum, which is for getting help using this forum system, to a better forum, Acrobat.

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ken.brownAuthor

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how do I get to it? And, thanks

Just Shoot Me

Legend

Do you mean to the post you made and that I moved?

You will get an email for every reply made to your post, like the one you will get for this reply I'm making. Just Click the Link in the email.

Or Go to the Acrobat forum and look for your topic title

Find & replace.

Or in the upper right hand corner of any of these forums web pages, after you have signed in, you will see a circle with a picture of some type, Click that and select "My Profile".

And you will see all the posts and or replies you have made.

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