Acrobat copy paste not editable

[Thay Bon]

Using Acrobat on a MacBook.
I copy-pasted text from Google Docs into a text box on a blank page in acrobat. 
Highlighted the text to change font and size, but lose the highlight when moving the cursor off text towards the edit functions.

I tried copy pasting from a pdf as well, and pasting without selecting a textbox. Same results.
I can highlight the text, but cannot then change fonts etc. 
I can delete words and type in words.

Any thoughts?
Thanks for your help

[Amal. · Accepted solution]

Hi Thay Bon 

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described you are unable to edit the copy paste text in the PDF.

Is this a behavior with a particular PDF file or with all the PDFs? Please try with a different PDF file and check.

Would you mind sharing the workflow/steps you are doing to copy and paste the text in the PDF? A small video of the issue would help us to better understand.

Also please checkout the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/reusing-pdf-content.html for more information about copying and pasting the text and images from PDF.

Make sure you have the latest version of the application installed. Go to help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once .

Also try to reset the Acrobat preferences as described in the help page https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-reset-acrobat-preference-settings-to-defau... and check.

Regards

Amal

[Thay Bon]

Good morning Amal,

Thank you for your very prompt reply.
The problem seems to have fixed itself- a kind of turn it off and turn it back on again.
I tried the same steps with a different PDF. All good.

Went back to the problem PDF and also all good.

The FAQs seem to all be about copy-paste to get text into PDFs- which I could do. I did not see any FAQs about problems formatting text once it is in the document.
There's always something.

And there's often help.
Thank you for your help,
Thay Bon