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jaleedag
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January 13, 2020
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How to move sticky notes across a page?

  • January 13, 2020
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Hello everyone

 

I want to shift 3 or 4 (or even more) sticky notes (including the replies to the sticky note) on a specific page all together to a separate page within the same PDF file. 

Is there a way I can efficiently do it without having to individually create new sticky notes and manually copy pasting the content? As they are 3000+ sticky notes in a file and creating new sticky notes and copying the comments will be too tedious and time consuming.

 

Please let me know. Thank You everyone! 

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Correct answer try67

It's possible to use a script to move all, or all selected, comments at once to the same location on a different page.

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JR Boulay
JR Boulay
Community Expert
January 19, 2020

it doesn't work. Please help.

Open the Comments tools pane, clic the "AZ" icon to sort Comments by Page, clic on the 1st Comment, SHIFT-clic on the last Comment, then use shortcuts or the Edit menu to cut/copy/paste.

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try67
try67
Community Expert
January 19, 2020

If you try to do that in a file with more than 3000 comments I can almost guarantee the application will freeze up or crash.

It was barely able to load all of them in the Comments List just when I opened it, not to mention process them using a script, which is much more efficient than this method...

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    jaleedagAuthor
    Known Participant
    January 19, 2020

    I agree. I tried that. Adobe couldn't handle it and froze. Thank you friend for running the script. Adobe needs to seriously relook at their software and see why it crashes when there are a large number of comments in the document. 

      JR Boulay
      JR Boulay
      Community Expert
      January 18, 2020

      I don't think that's the problem…

      Using the Selection tool: select all comments (sticky notes or any type of comment) on a page, cut them, go to the target page and paste them.

      That's all!

      😉

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      jaleedagAuthor
      Known Participant
      January 18, 2020

      Mate I did try doing that but when I select all of them, it only picks up one and pastes it. It doesn't do all of them as you're saying.

      Bernd Alheit
      Bernd Alheit
      Community Expert
      January 18, 2020

      How does you select and cut the notes?

      try67
      try67Correct answer
      Community Expert
      January 15, 2020

      It's possible to use a script to move all, or all selected, comments at once to the same location on a different page.

        J
        jaleedagAuthor
        Known Participant
        January 17, 2020

        Can you tell me how? I am not very tech savvy though. Thank You! 

        JR Boulay
        JR Boulay
        Community Expert
        January 13, 2020

        Sticky notes and comments are easier to manipulate with the Selection tool (black arrow) than with the Hand tool.
        We can cut/copy-paste several at the same time.

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        jaleedagAuthor
        Known Participant
        January 13, 2020

        I don't think that's the problem I want to copy all sticky notes and their content in one page of a PDF to another page of the PDF without making the effort of creating a new sticky note on the second page and then copying the content one sticky note at a time. 

        JR Boulay
        JR Boulay
        Community Expert
        January 18, 2020

        ............

         

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        Bernd Alheit
        Bernd Alheit
        Community Expert
        January 13, 2020

        You can cut and paste the notes.

        J
        jaleedagAuthor
        Known Participant
        January 13, 2020

        I tried but when I press CTRL + X to cut the note it only cuts off the note but doesn't paste it when I press CTRL + V in the page I want to place it. Plus again what do I do when I have sticky notes with multiple responses to them? Post each response one at a time? There are 3000+ sticky notes in the document... It simply won't work. 

        Bernd Alheit
        Bernd Alheit
        Community Expert
        January 13, 2020

        Cut and paste works for me.

        Eric Dumas
        Eric Dumas
        Community Expert
        January 13, 2020

        Hi,

        In the past, I printed to a pdf the comments.

        https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/importing-exporting-comments.html

         

        Can you confirm the version of the software and the operating system?

        J
        jaleedagAuthor
        Known Participant
        January 13, 2020

        Thank You Eric! the thing is the document I imported the sticky notes from had the notes on different page numbers and now in order to reorient everything I want to manually move the sticky notes from one page to the next IN THE SAME PDF without having to do the hassle of creating a new note on each page and copy pasting the comment. Is there an efficient way?

        Eric Dumas
        Eric Dumas
        Community Expert
        January 15, 2020

        I think I understand better your issue.

        I think this is bad news as you seem to have a large number of notes. 

        I don't see a technique to 'select all' and move them all, sorry

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