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New Participant
September 15, 2022
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How do I move or delete text boxes in Acrobat DC?

  • September 15, 2022
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I'm trying to edit the layout of a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC on Windows 11 and have spent DAYS trying to figure out how to move or delete text boxes. No matter what I do, the only thing Acrobat seems to allow is editing the text within a text box. 

 

Let me be crystal clear: I am not asking how to edit text within a text box; every tutorial I could find on the subject seems only to talk about editing the actual text.  What I'm asking is how to select a text box and either move it to a different position or delete it altogether.  Photoshop, for example, has the text edit tool and the object selection tool; if Acrobat has a similar object selection tool, I'll be damned if I can find it.

 

Thanks in advance.



Correct answer alexander_duerregger

Hi! You can do that with the edit PDF Tool. You need to grad the box at the border to move it. I attached a Screen Recording where you can see what i am doing. (The software is in german but you should be able to find it)

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New Participant
November 23, 2023

its 2023 and I have the same question. acrobat has turned into the worst unusable bit of software. shocking

alexander_duerreggerCorrect answer
Inspiring
November 23, 2023

Hi! You can do that with the edit PDF Tool. You need to grad the box at the border to move it. I attached a Screen Recording where you can see what i am doing. (The software is in german but you should be able to find it)

New Participant
May 10, 2024

Your video shows moving text boxes around.   How does one DELETE a text box?

 


There may be an additional step that may not be showing in the video.  When the cursor changes to the plus sign with arrowheads, you have to click the mouse button, then hit delete. Otherwise it just grabs and drags the box around.

Amal.
Community Manager
Community Manager
September 15, 2022

Hi @EdTCS 

 

++ Adding to the discussion

 

If its a PDF form and you have editing rights, open the PDF file > go to Tools > Prepare form and then you would be able to move or delete the text box.

 

Hope it will help

 

Regards

Amal

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
September 15, 2022

Does you mean form text fields or comment text fields?