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Anonymous
May 20, 2010
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Changing the Text Color of Text Box

  • May 20, 2010
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Is there a way to change the color of the text in a text box?

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      Dave Creamer of IDEAS
      Community Expert
      Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 6, 2020

      Is there more to your problem than meets the eye? I simple go to Edit PDF, select the text or text frame and change the color. 

      David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community Expert
      Community Expert
      December 7, 2020

      There are at least three different kinds of "text boxes" in Acrobat... Also, why reply to a decade-old thread? A lot has changed since then, and what you're describing was not possible to do so easily at the time.

      Dave Creamer of IDEAS
      Community Expert
      Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 7, 2020

      There was a reply to the post on 12/-6-2020, causing it to come to the top of the list. Didn't notice the date--did that inconvience you?

       

      Also, what I described worked fine.

      David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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      Giiodii
      Participant
      July 7, 2010

      You're not alone. These instructions are for Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, but should be similar for other versions.

      The tool you are looking for can be located by right-clicking anywhere on the  gray background of the main toolbar and scrolling  down to click on "Properties Bar", or by simply typing "Ctrl + E".

      This will bring up the toolbar in a separate window.

      The tool will be grayed out until you create or select a text box and highlight the text you wish to format.     

      If you need to edit text boxes frequently, you may wish to  permanently dock the "Properties Bar" on your main toolbar:

      After using "Ctrl + E" to bring up the "Text  Box Properties" bar, you can drag and drop it on to your main  toolbar, then lock the main toolbar by right-clicking anywhere on the  gray background of the main toolbar and scrolling  down to click on "Lock Toolbars"

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        Anonymous
        July 8, 2010

        Outstanding. Why is that sooo hard to find? Can't find anything about it

        in the Help menu.

        Alan Voorhees

        Technical Publications Specialist, Service Technical Resources

        Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc.

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        From:

        Giiodii <forums@adobe.com>

        To:

        Alan Voorhees <avoorhees@mmsa.com>

        Date:

        07/07/2010 04:56 PM

        Subject:

        Changing the Text Color of Text Box

        http://forums.adobe.com/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/33358/TextBoxProperties2.JPG

        You're not alone. These instructions are for Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, but

        should be similar for other versions.

        The tool you are looking for can be located by right-clicking anywhere on

        the gray background of the main toolbar and scrolling down to click on

        "Properties Bar", or by simply typing "Ctrl + E".

        This will bring up the toolbar in a separate window.

        The tool will be grayed out until you create or select a text box and

        highlight the text you wish to format.

        If you need to edit text boxes frequently, you may wish to permanently

        dock the "Properties Bar" on your main toolbar:

        After using "Ctrl + E" to bring up the "Text Box Properties" bar, you

        can drag and drop it on to your main toolbar, then lock the main toolbar

        by right-clicking anywhere on the gray background of the main toolbar and

        scrolling down to click on "Lock Toolbars"

        G
        Giiodii
        Participant
        July 8, 2010

        I'm glad I could be of service. I wonder if Adobe is aware they are revealing your real email address to me when you comment?

        Now I can spam you. Would you like to buy a nice shiny airplane? No? OK

        I have no idea why they thought their end users would not be inclined to format their text color, font, and size, considering in the forum comment tool, they give you all of those abilities right at the middle of the screen.

        When you compound the number of users with the amount of time wasted looking for this tool, this little oversight has created hundreds of wasted hours for us.

        I have been using Acrobat Pro for more than 2 years and while I knew there was a tool which would allow me to modify the font, I could never find it, in spite of searching the help menu and Googling it on multiple occasions. I even knew what the tool looked like, but I could not figure out how to turn it on because it's not listed as a tool in the "Customize toolbars" menu either.

        Needlessly frustrating. I did try a search in the Adobe Help menu for "Properties Bar" and it came up with "Add comments in a text box or callout"

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