Find and Replace

[ken.brown]

I just installed Acrobat pro - non subscription- on my Macbook.  I meet all the system requirements.  I purchased this to work on a personal project researching medica records.  I had been using Acrobat Reader find and replace feature with no issues.  After installing the Pro version the find feature does not work properly.  It finds all kinds of incorrect words and few of the ones I asked for.  Anybody know whats happening?

Ken

[Just Shoot Me]

I moved your post over from the poorly named Community Help forum, which is for getting help using this forum system, to a better forum, Acrobat.

[ken.brown]

how do I get to it?  And, thanks

[Just Shoot Me]

Do you mean to the post you made and that I moved? 

You will get an email for every reply made to your post, like the one you will get for this reply I'm making. Just Click the Link in the email.

Or Go to the Acrobat forum and look for your topic title

Find & replace.

Or in the upper right hand corner of any of these forums web pages, after you have signed in, you will see a circle with a picture of some type, Click that and select "My Profile".

And you will see all the posts and or replies you have made.

[try67]

There's no Find & Replace command in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

[ken.brown]

Acrobat reader DC..........

[try67]

Right...

[Test Screen Name]

So you agree there is no Find and Replace in Acrobat Reader? If there seems to be for you please post a screen shot of it. 

[ken.brown]

I am not an expert so I can't aggree. I only have the below versions and I do have find and replace in the reader DC.  

 

 

[try67]

Reader (any version of it) can only edit texts that are in form fields or comments. It can't edit static text in a PDF file.

[Just Shoot Me]

Please state the Exact Version of Acrobat you installed. you find that by going to the Help menu and selecting eithe about Acrobat or System Info and post the exact version number.

[ken.brown]

Hope these work.  I'm relativey new at this...thanks for helping.

 

 

[Just Shoot Me]

First what you posted, correctly by including it in the body of the text, are pictures of you screen. In all modern Operating systems there is a way to take a screen shot of what is displayed on you screen.

On a Mac there is a Key combo, Shift + Command + the number 4 keys then Draw a rectangle around what you want the screen shot of.

And on Window you use the Snip & Sketch or a great screen capture program called GreenShot which is donationware.

As to your screen shot posts you have the newest version of Acrobat Reader installed but the Acrobat Pro DC is an older point release.

Newest is.

But as far as I can tell Adobe doesn't sell the stand alone version of Acrobat anymore. It is now only by subscription.

Did you buy your copy of Acrobat Pro 2020 from Adobe directly?

You can get rid of the Reader version since you have the pro version.

[ken.brown]

Yes I got it from Adobe....Thay are sold as "Non Subscription"  downloads.   The pro was $249 for the MAC download.   I don't want a subscription version because I live full time in an RV and I don't always have internet access or even a decent cell signal,   So anyway, I know how to use the find and replace but It does not work in the Pro version.  If I type in the word knee for example it returns with words such a medical or even some numbers.   That's my problem.  In the reader version it works fine.

[Test Screen Name]

We've said, there is no Find and Replace in Reader, so your continued statement that it works fine is just baffling.

[Just Shoot Me]

Thanks for the reply.

I suggest you update Acrobat. 

Even though I have an All Apps subscription it seems Acrobat never, or Extremely rarely, ever get updated from the Creatrive Cloud Desktop app like all the other Adobe programs do.

I have to run the Check For Updates inside Acrobat. Help menu Check for updates. I did that when I saw your screen shor of the reader was at .009. My Pro DC was at .006 and then the update was applied to get to .009.

[Just Shoot Me]

For Find and replace in Acrobat Pro DC.

Keyboard shortcut Ctrl+f

Edit Menu > Find (Magnify glass).

https://www.google.com/search?q=Find+and+replace+in+Acrobat+Pro+DC&oq=Find+and+replace+in+Acrobat+Pr...

[JR Boulay]

"But as far as I can tell Adobe doesn't sell the stand alone version of Acrobat anymore."

The standalone version of Acrobat Pro is "Acrobat Pro 2020" (previously "Acrobat Pro 2017).

😉

[Just Shoot Me]

Good to know. When I went to the Adobe site all I got was You already have Acrobat with your subscription.

[JR Boulay]

"That's my problem. In the reader version it works fine."

As already said above: the Find & Replace function does not exist in Acrobat Reader.