Text in a box

[Jack157F]

I have a fillable document that started as a Word (docx) document that I imported into Acrobat. The user asked me to add some text but put the text in a box. (See below)

This is easy in Word, but I haven't found a way to do it in Acrobat. The closest I have come is to create a text field and mark it read only. It works, but I don't like the result not ot mention that it is different from the other boxes texts..

Is there a way to create a box around text that looks like something Word would product.

Jack

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

Use the "Add Text Box" Comment tool and then flatten the page or the document.

It's easier to do using the Flatten plugin which is part of the (free) abracadabraTools:

https://www.abracadabrapdf.net/utilitaires/utilities-in-english/abracadabratools_en/

[Jack157F]

Where do I find the "Add Comment Box"? Is it part of Edit PDF?

[try67]

Under the Comment section.

[Thom Parker]

No, its in a different toolset/category, i.e., the one mentioned by Try67

[JR Boulay]

"Use the "Add Text Box" Comment tool"

[Christopher33018976sf2m]

THANK YOU!

I almost unistalled and cancelled my CC subscription becasue I could not figugre out how to consistently create an opaque text box - that;s all I needed to do, ever - and the adobe tech "help" actually said it was no longer avaiblable in some disussion elsewhere.

THANKS AGAIN!

p.s., notice spell check doesn't work in these reply bxes...wth?