Selecting multiple text boxes in Acrobat Pro

[Momo-50]

I have the latest version of  Acrobat Pro for Windows and would please like to know how to be able to select multiple text boxes when editing a PDF, so as to be able to change the font on all the text boxes.

I have searched the community,  but there are no answers for the latest Acrobat Pro, only Acrobat DC, which is different.

Is there a quick way to be able to select multiple text boxes on a page, without having to select them one  by one?

I'm hoping there is a way to like click the mouse and drag it across multiple text boxes and then they all are selected/turn blue?

Thanks for your help.

[try67]

That method should work... What happens when you try to do it like that?

[Momo-50]

It doesnt work.  You can't just click and drag tthe nouse over mutliple boxes.   When you are in editing mode and dont have any text boxes selected and move your mouse near a box to go to try and click and drag  the mouse pointer swtiches to a cross  and all you can do is drag the text box your mouse is near.

Surely there has to be a way to do a group select on mutitple text boces ?

[try67]

Try clicking a bit further away from an existing box.

[Momo-50]

That doesn't work either,  it still changes to a cross for moving either the text box its next to, or it moves the outline box of the whole page.  

[Subrato Namata]

Have you tried keeping Shift pressed and mouse click text boxes for selection of continuous bboxes. When keeping Ctrl key press and mouse click text bix for selection of non-continuous bboxes.

[sarah_9820]

I am having this same issue. When I try to click and drag, the boxes are not selected. Control click is not letting me select more than one text box at a time, and shift click is not selecting anything. I use this function for my job to remove over 90 small text boxes on one page so I am hoping not to have to click them individually. Any advisement would be appreciated, thank you!

[herb_7352]

Try this:

Click on the 3 dots at the bottom of the toolbar.

Select "Customize Toolbar."

Scroll to "Add rich media" and open that section.

Find the "Select Object" tool and click on it.

Click the "Add to toolbar" button (the top icon between the image of the toolbar and the library of tools; a circle with a + sign inside and an arrow underneath).

Use that Select Object tool whenever you want to select multiple objects by clicking and dragging.

[Cynthia36367097h8mg]

The select object button you described doesn't select any text boxes at all for me. The only thing I can use to select the boxes is the arrow select tool and that will only select items on one page. I've tried the enabling scroll view that some suggested but that still doesn't allow me to select from multiple pages.

[try67]

If these "text boxes" are static text elements, then no, you can't select them over the boundaries of a single page.

[active_video7833]

I no longer like acrobat for this reason. I will be using another program. This new version is laggy and chunky and slow. It's not

intuitive and is terrible . Why mess with a good thing?