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September 22, 2024
Question

Apostrophes and Quotation marks are not selectable.

  • September 22, 2024
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I'm reading a PDF in Adobe Acrobat. I'm trying to highlight sections of text. I can select normal text, but if there is an apostrophe or quotation mark within the string of text I am trying to select, Adobe refuses to select the word with the apostrophe or the word next to the quotation mark. For example, if there is a sentence "Spot ran fast" Adobe will select all the words with no issues. But if the sentence reads "Spot's run was fast" Adobe refuses to select the word "Spot's" because it has an apostrophe within it. Similarly, if there is a sentence "Spot liked the 'Best dog' brand of dog bed" Adobe refuses to select the words 'best dog' because they have quotation marks next to them. 

 

How do I fix this? I have checked the document's Security Properties and Document Assembly and Page Extraction are not allowed, but Content Copying, Commenting, Filling of form fields, and Signing are. 

2 replies

Adobe Employee
September 25, 2024

Hi @caleb_6552 

Can you please share the app version installed on your machines. We tried on few files but this issue is not reproducible at our end, if possible can you please share a sample file to help us understand the issue better. 

 

Thanks,

Rohit A

New Participant
January 28, 2025

I am also having this issue with the Adobe Pro app that I installed yesterday. I'm trying to redact and if the client's name is in a possessive state, the redaction won't work.

try67
Adobe Expert
September 22, 2024

Most likely an issue with how the text was created. Maybe it's an image instead of real text or something like that...

Without seeing a sample file it's very hard to say for sure, though.