Paragraphs randomly deleted and text boxes moved

Report · Oct 04, 2025

Hey, so I'm using Acrobat for the first time for an assment that I'm working on and it's nearing its deadline and I'm having some issues that are driving me crazy.

I finished writing and answering all the questions for my assessment and was going through and proof reading it before getting ready to submit.

I noticed that somehow, some of the smaller text boxes I had, had moved up my pages and were overlapping onto my bigger text boxes. When I tried to select them to move them back to where they belong, it selected the bigger box instead. So I clicked out of the box to deselect it and somehow, that deleted the whole box. I didn't click the trash icon. And now my whole paragraph is gone. I can't undo the action, because the undo icon is grey (as in, nothing to undo). I've tried "ctrl Z" and that doesn't work either.

This has happened twice already with my smaller paragraphs that were easier enough to rewrite. But now it's happened to one of my biggest ones, that took me so long to write and now it's gone, probably forever?

Can anyone tell me why this is happening and if there's another way to get my paragraph back?

Report · Oct 05, 2025

Sounds like you're creating the document from scratch with Acrobat. Well, this app is not really a word processor like Microsoft Word. Yes, you can edit PDFs with it, but this has limitations since the PDF format itself was not invented to be editiable. There's always the chance of destoying the layout with the editing. So you better make a copy of you original file before. For creating entire new documents you better use a word processor and once your happy with the content, you convert it into a PDF.