Select Text Tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

Report · Mar 14, 2019

Where is the Select Text tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC?

I do not want to edit, highlight, etc. the text, just select text to easily make a bookmark or copy text.

Selecting text is my default until I use another tool, like the Loupe tool. Then, I cannot find the Select Text tool or figure out how to switch back. I do want the other tools I use to stay selected until I am done using them or switch tools. And I do not want to restart every time I want to select text again.

I did try searching for an answer in the online help, but just got general information about Adobe DC and tools.

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Report · May 10, 2020

I have been tearing my hair out over this one as well.

Using the "V" hotkey worked for me, but then by chance I realized I had been looking in the wrong place. I was only looking at the top toolbar, where I would expect the button to be. But then I saw, the hand and select tool is in the toolbar that appears when you hover the mouse over the document.

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Report · Aug 30, 2023

Just noting for the record that the fact Adobe took an exceedingly simple operation and made it needlessly complex is emblematic of how they've been ruining the UIs of their professional applications for years in their effort to expand their user base to dilettantes and hobbyists.