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Susan Flamingo
Susan Flamingo
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January 11, 2021
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Delete ALL BookMarks in PDF file

  • January 11, 2021
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Hi friends!

I have Acrobat PRO and someone gave me a PDF file with hundreds of totally unnecessary bookmarks. 

Is there a way I can delete them all in one shot?

Keep in mind: Total ignoramus here...

 

Thank You

Susan

    Correct answer try67

    If you do that you'll lose a bunch of potentially important information, such as the file's metadata.

    There are much easier ways of doing it. Just open the Bookmarks panel, click into it, press Ctrl+A and then Delete.

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    Bernd Alheit
    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    January 11, 2021

    Use File > Create > Combine Files into a Single PDF...
    Add your file
    At the options disable "Always add bookmarks to Adobe PDF"
    Press Combine

      try67
      try67Correct answer
      Community Expert
      January 11, 2021

      If you do that you'll lose a bunch of potentially important information, such as the file's metadata.

      There are much easier ways of doing it. Just open the Bookmarks panel, click into it, press Ctrl+A and then Delete.

        T
        Tranquil_Wonderland6C13
        Inspiring
        October 17, 2024

        Go to Tools - Action Wizard (in Acrobat Pro) and create a new Action. Add to it a command to Execute JavaScript (under More Tools) with the code above. Make sure to untick the "Prompt User" check-box.

        Then add a Save command after that, so it looks like this:

         

        Now run this Action on your files, and all the bookmarks in them will be removed, and the files saved under their original paths. If you want to save them under a different name or folder that can be set under the settings of the Save command in your Action.


        Is there a way to modify this so it'll delete bookmarks at certain levels? For instance, I'm compiling a couple of dozen Word documents into a single PDF, and I'd like to keep the top-level bookmarks which mark out the original individual documents, but I don't really want to keep the next-level bookmarks within them. Not least because the Word documents were set up so that every text style is a heading, so the bookmarks end up containing essentially a duplicate of the entire text.

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