Text Box font color in Acrobat X Pro

SOLVED.  Follow these steps EXACTLY to change font size/color/etc. of text inside textbox for Acrobat X Pro

(1) Open any PDF and create a text box and type text into it - example type "test"

(2) Then left click inside the text inside the textbox to put the cursor inside the word of the text.  Example if you typed "test" into the textbox then left click to put the cursor between the "e" and "s" or anywhere else INSIDE the word you typed into the textbox.

(3) THEN (with the cursor still inside the word inside the textbox) hit "Control" and "E" at the same time on your keyboard - This will open the Properties menu to change the font inside the text box.  THEN left click while dragging to highlight ALL of the word or words that you typed inside the textbox.  You want ALL words inside the text box to be highlighted because you are about to change the font and you then want to make those changes the future default so you want everything inside the text box to be the same so hightlight all typing inside the textbox. Once all words inside the text box are highlighted then use the pull down options inside the Properties menu (that began floating on your screen after you hit "Control" plus "E" earlier) and you now change the color or size, etc. of the text inside the textbox

(4) To make those changes the future default for all future textboxes, you NOW click the "Hand" tool in the toolbar at the top of the screen and THEN (and only then) RIGHT CLICK the edge of the textbox (not the text inside the textbox but the outside edge of the toolbox). This will open a menu and you now choose "Properties" and you will see the menu that usually only allows you to change the edge of the text box but this menu ALSO allows you to choose "Make Properties default" and it this option which you now want to choose (now that you changed the text inside the textbox) to lock in the text size/color changes that you made with the other menu.

If you want to know how to change TEXT COLOR OR FONT or SIZE in a .pdf text box, read on.  None of the other replies answer this question.

The answer is: Acrobat DOES NOT permit you to change the color or font in a text box.  INSTEAD, in a Word (for example) document, type, in your chosen font, size, and color, the text that you want to appear in the text box and then copy and paste this text into your text box.  You can revise the text in the text box and the font, size and color will remain the same in the revision. I guarantee this will work, or at least that it consistently worked for me.

My version of acrobat is Acrobat XI, version 11.0.13.17 and I use a Windows system.

Actually, I think it is Command E, not Control E (at least on Mac).

Agree, Acrobat's UI is a NIGHTMARE. They cleaned up the presentation a bit, and it doesn't crash as i once did, but it is just a terrible, terrible piece of software.

I'm cannot figure out how to edit the font size on the new Adobe Acrobat DC. I've tried ctrl + E, but nothing showing under the properties .

OK, I am joining the fun Reindeer games: I struggled with same issue. Here is what I discovered>Command E on the Mac... LOL!

Yes, it is buried:

1. Go to Drawing Markups and chose text box tool and create your box
2. Highlight the red box (click on it showing the bezier points)
3. Now COMMAND E (Mac)
4. VOILA! A Christmas miracle!
5. Now you should see the Text Box Properties interface so you can do your magic on the Box stroke.

To change the text within the box

1. Close the Text Box Properties interface, or double click the red text box
2. Highlight the text within the red text box
3. Now COMMAND E (Mac)
4. VOILA! A second Christmas miracle!
5. Now you should see Text Box Text Properties interface so you can change the text to any color you want.

Thanks Adobe and all you software engineers warriors for the Christmas miracles!

Step by step simple instructions to those of you who love a bit more clear help.

I really do and appreciate when other people help me to save my time.

1. Double click inside the text box to get a text cursor (vertical line) -- this will get you in "text edit mode":

2. Press CTRL+E -- this will bring up the Text Box Text Properties mini-toolbar, as below:

3. Select all or just some of the text inside the text box that you want to edit:

    - All the text selection: use the mouse, or hold SHIFT and use arrow keys, or triple click the mouse, or do CTRL+A

    - Partial text selection: use the mouse, or hold SHIFT and use arrow keys

4. Apply the text formatting you want from the Text Box Text Properties mini-toolbar:

    - text color

    - align text: left, center, right, justify

    - select font type

    - select font size

    - select BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINED, STRIKETHROUGH, SUPERSCRIPT, SUBSCRIPT

End of Instructions.

Additional Notes:

1. The above was verified on Adobe Acrobat X. May be the same on other versions, but I can't check since I do not have other versions installed.
2. If you already have a lot text boxes that you want all of them to change to a new formatting, unfortunately I do not know of a method that would let you change all of them in one step. You will need to either change them one by one, or delete them, create a new default, and then recreate them one by one -- pretty tedious either case. Hint to Adobe: please add this feature!
3. If several text boxes were grouped, you cannot edit the text inside them. You will need to ungroup them first, edit, and then regroup.
4. The text editing toolbar does not include more advanced features like, running the text vertically, rotate the text to any direction, vertical alignment of the text inside the box with the box, auto-sizing the text box to the text, auto-sizing the text font size to the box, aligning several text boxes, placing text boxes on a grid that can be defined, etc.  All these features would be nice, but they are missing since the intent here was to provide a simple tool
5. Adobe needs to improve the way the toolbar and the user interface is designed.  It is not intuitive. Its default is not helpful for us who want to use the commenting tools in a bit more advanced way.
6. I found no way to get the Text Box Text Properties mini-toolbar to stay "put" on the main toolbar. This dynamic toolbar idea is not a good one for me at least.  When I use a tool, I takes me time to learn where the tools are, and then all of sudden they are all somewhere else.  Imagine that every time you start driving your car the controls would be re-positioned.  Adobe made this worse in the last few versions.

I really hope that Adobe will listen to its users, get some feedback from focus groups, and be more proactive to make the tool really better!!!

P.S. Add a like if you found this useful. Add your comments to convince Adobe to listen a bit more!

Thank you for reading.

I had the same problem on Mac. Pressing APPLE+E did not work. I fixed this by saving the document, closing and reopening. Same thing happens with typewriter tool as well. Same solution.

Thank you all for this.. I was pulling my hair out. Not well thought out indeed.. what a crappy program!! I would go back to Bluebeam in a second if my company wasn't using this POS!

Definitely feels like the mutant cousin of the family.

Hi there,

I have just installed Acrobat 11pro, and cannot find a way of editing a "Text Box", with regard to background colour/fill and outline, I only seem to be able to edit the font style. I could do this with Acrobat 9, has this function been withdrawn. Any help on this would be most grateful.

Reg Dore,

Reading.

England.

Solution For Adobe X Pro to edit default text boxes permanently (within a document):

1) On the upper-right hand corner, click Tools > Drawing Markups > Text Box

2) Type something in the text box.

3) Click Ctrl + E if you do not have edit features. Pick the font and color you would like to use as the default for the rest of the document.

4) Click outside of the box, then Right-click the border of the box and select "Make Current Properties Default."

Formatting will only be default for this tool. If you would like to do the same for a Callout Box, just click Tools > Drawing Markups > Callout Box, and follow steps 2 through 4 thereafter.