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afdandrea
afdandrea
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August 30, 2018
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How to accept multiple edits all at once

  • August 30, 2018
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I got a pdf file with hundreds of edit marks, that work was done using Adobe Reader.

How do I accept all those edits to be introduced at part of the text all at once, using Adobe Pro?

(This would be equivalent of Word accept/reject edits feature, by which I can introduce them one by one or all at once). Thanks.

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Correct answer try67

You don't. Not one by one, not all at once. PDF files were not meant to be edited in this way, at all.

You need to go back to the original file format, apply the changes there, and then generate a new PDF from it.

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try67
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try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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August 30, 2018

You don't. Not one by one, not all at once. PDF files were not meant to be edited in this way, at all.

You need to go back to the original file format, apply the changes there, and then generate a new PDF from it.

afdandrea
afdandreaAuthor
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August 30, 2018

PS: Sorry, by edits made in Reader, I meant comments. So my question is: how do I accept all comments at once using Adobe Pro?

Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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August 30, 2018

Acrobat doesn't have track changes (like Word does), where you accept and reject changes. The annotations are used to show you where to edit the source file (unless you import the mark-up into an application like FrameMaker, which translates the annotations to track changes).

What are you trying to do? Simply remove all of the annotations?

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
afdandrea
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August 30, 2018

Thanks Barb. I have 2,000 comments made on a manuscript as a pdf file.  (I'd like to accept all those comments in bulk, and then export it as a Word file. But apparently I can't)

Alternatively, I received the manuscript in Word file as well. But if I can't introduce those comments in bulk, it seems I may have to manually enter each of those 2,000 comments one by one in the Word file.

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