Editing text in text boxes

[adamh27352920]

Why does it take many attempts to double click and edit text in a text box now? I have never had this issue when working in Acrobat. Now I can't edit the text my first try and I'm seeing a black image of a trash can when I'm clicking on the text box. What is causing this? Did this change with an upgrade?

[Bernd Alheit]

This is a new feature.

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Adamh,

It seems that you are trying to edit the text in the text box added using the comment tool.

As Bernd Alheit mentioned above, there are some commenting experience improvements introduced in the latest version.

You may refer to the following help document for more details on this.

- What's new in Adobe Acrobat DC

Hope the information helps.

Regards,

Meenakshi

[adamh27352920]

Thank you, Meenakshi.

I'm having a hard time considering this change an "improvement" to the software. Rather than showing me a trash can for quickly deleting the text box and requiring me to double click 15 times to edit the text, I'd LOVE to be able to edit in the text box after simply double-clicking and being forced to take the milliseconds to press the delete key on my keyboard instead of clicking an icon.

Anyway, thanks again, Meenakshi.

[Meenakshi Negi]

We do appreciate your feedback.

You may share your feedback on this with the team over here Feature Request/Bug Report Form

Regards,

Meenakshi

[arvindy · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

Adobe Acrobat and Reader official update (19.012.20036) containing the fix for this issue is now available. This update will be automatically pushed to all existing installations of Acrobat and Reader. If you want, you may also manually trigger the update early by opening the application and going to Help > Check for Updates.

More information about this release is here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/release-note/release-notes-acrobat-reader.html

Please try it out and let us know your feedback!

Thanks for your patience and support!

Regards,

Arvind

[sahilsinghal11]

Hi adamh27352920

Could you please mark this thread 'Answered' if you are not facing this anymore.

Thanks,

Sahil

[arvindy]

Hi adamh27352920,

Thanks for reporting the issue! We have taken a note of it and will let you know once we plan to deliver the fix.

Regards,

Arvind

[RobertCBoston]

I am unable to enlarge (i.e., edit) the text in a text box I created in an existing .pdf file, using Adobe Acrobat Standard 2020 (Classic).  I try to get into the Tools>Edit but the editing sidebar is grayed out and I can't enlarge the text.  Please help.  This is a major issue for me.  My older version allowed me to just go to "Properties" and edit the text font and size, but now "Properties" does not have that option.  Very frustrating.