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pfoterac
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May 23, 2020
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Trouble with Groupling Markups

  • May 23, 2020
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I saw in an article https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/commenting-pdfs.html that talked about what you were able to do with commenting after a May 2019 release. I was interested in one section in particular that said you could group markups. However after trying to do so, I found that I was unable to complete step 3: Right-click within the selection, and choose group. 

I was able to right-click within the selection but I didn't see the group option. All I saw was delete, set status, copy text, copy text, enable text selection, hide comment app and properties. Does anyone know whether this feature is still available or if it is what I am doing wrong? It says in the article that it applies to "Acrobat Reader DC, Adobe Acrobat 2017, [and] Adobe Acrobat DC" so unless something has changed since last year I feel that it should still work.

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ls_rbls
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May 26, 2020

Hey pfoterac,

 

Very quick and easy, see the slides below:

 

 

 

In the link that you shared above, bullet #3, where it says "Right-click within the selection, and choose Group. ", make sure that you point and right-click inside of the markups, then select Group from the context menu.

 

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pfoteracAuthor
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May 27, 2020

Hi ls_rbls. Thanks for including the images. I realize now that I wasn't doing anything wrong process wise simply that I misunderstood the definition of a markup. I though that markups referred to a number of things including highlighting not just sticky notes. I was therefore trying to group highlights. This didn't work no matter the mix of whether they had coments or not. In other words whether the highlights selected that I was tryng to group had comments, didn't have comments or if there was a mimxture of ones that did and ones that didn't. Therefore, while I was using the same procdeure it didn't work because (I believe) this feature isn't available not because I was doing the process wrong. Is there anyway to see only certain types of comments (highlights, sticky notes, etc.) or only see hightlights that have comments/notes attached to them? I am working in a multi-page document (~310) many pages of which have numerous highlights, sticky notes, or other comments so it is getting overwhelming having to sift through all of them. Unfortunatley I don't always know what I'm looking for or even which page it is on. I've included a picture of what one of the pages of my doucment looks like. 

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