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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
    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
    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
    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)
    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"

    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"

    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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