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July 22, 2010
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Having trouble deleting text from pdf

  • 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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try67
try67Correct answer
Community Expert
July 22, 2010

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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rw339900Author
Participating Frequently
July 22, 2010

Hi.

Thanks for your reply.

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

try67
try67
Community Expert
July 22, 2010

Do you have the original file that was used to create the PDF?

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