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Having trouble deleting text from pdf

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July 22, 2010
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Hi.

I'm new to using Adobe Acrobat. I've just donwloaded Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro and I'm trying to delete a sentence from a document. I've managed to draw a box around the text but I'm pressing the delete key and the backspace key but it won't delete the text, just the box. I'm using Windows Vista.

Hope you can help me with this.

Rachel

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Correct answer try67

Acrobat is not a text editor. You can delete text using the redaction tool,

but that will not cause the rest of the text to move "into place", like when

you use Word, for example.

The best way is to edit the original file and then re-create the PDF.

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Acrobat is not a text editor. You can delete text using the redaction tool,

but that will not cause the rest of the text to move "into place", like when

you use Word, for example.

The best way is to edit the original file and then re-create the PDF.

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Hi.

Thanks for your reply.

Could you suggest how to re-create the pdf please?

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It was letter sent to me and I scanned it on to my laptop.

In that case there's nothing much to do. You can use the redaction tool, or

try the text touch-up tool, but don't expect much.