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Ward5DEF
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May 31, 2022
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Need to edit the text of a link, not the URL behind it

  • May 31, 2022
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I have a document with links like Lake Fishing for Trout, which links to a web page with the heading "Lake fishing for trout". I want to select the link text and add a comment to it to instruct a team member to lowercase it like the web page.

 

I can select the text, but I'm not given a way to add a comment to it. Right-clicking the text shows an option to delete the link, which then lets me edit the text, but I'd like to leave the link in place.

 

Is there a way to edit link text without deleting the link?

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Amal.
Amal.
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May 31, 2022

Hi there

 

++  Adding to the discussion

 

Please go through the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/links-attachments-pdfs.html and see if that works for you.

 

Regards

Amal

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Ward5DEFAuthor
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May 31, 2022

Thanks for the link, Amal; lots of information there. Unfortunately, the only type of editing that can be done to the link text is changing its color, line thickness, and line color. Editing or comments don't seem to work as they do on regular text.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 31, 2022

You're editing the link, not the text. They are completely separate from each other.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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May 31, 2022

It should be possible. Did you try the Edit Text tool, under Tools - Content Editing? It should allow you to edit the underlying text without changing the Link object that's above it.

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Ward5DEFAuthor
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June 1, 2022

I'm using Acrobat DC (22.001.20117), and when I click the Tools menu, I get a page of labeled icons under the categories Create & Edit, Forms & Signatures, Share & Review, Protect & Standardize, and Customize. One of the icon labels is "Edit PDF", but none is "Tools, Content Editing". Opening Edit PDF shows the document with a panel to its right, where the only option not grayed out is Settings, under Scanned Documents, which mine is not.

   Am I looking in the wrong place?

try67
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try67Community Expert
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June 1, 2022

Well, the location and exact name of the tool depends on your version of Acrobat. Can you send a screenshot of what you're seeing?

Document Geek
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Document GeekCommunity Expert
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May 31, 2022

Not really. It would be easier to just add a sticky note next to it explaining what you want.

Normally, I'd be all for properly using the comment tools as you're trying to do, but sometimes things like links and interactive elements can get in the way of being able to interact with the text.

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    Ward5DEFAuthor
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    May 31, 2022

    Thanks, Document Geek. Sometimes finding out you can't do something is as useful as a solution. I forgot altogether about the sticky note method; that's what I'll use.

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