Why am I getting boxes around text when I place the cursor in a document?

[JIPNET]

Any way to turn this off?

Thanks.

[gary_sc]

Hi @JIPNET, you can't, and you do not want to.

What that box represents is the frame around that block text. If you try to edit the text in that box, you'll see some amount of word wrap within that box, but if you put too much text in there, you'll see that box expand over the next block of text.

So, basically, this is a visual aid to see what you are doing. If you get out of Edit mode, the boxes will go away anyway, so not to worry.

And a word of warning: while Acrobat can allow some editing, Acrobat is neither a word-processing application nor a page layout application. Trying to make it work as such will only lead to aggravation and the time wasted that you could have applied to using 1) the actual program that was used to create the original document, or if that's completely not possible, then export the content into a Word document or even a txt document and recreate the document from scratch. It might be faster.

Editing in Acrobat is fine if all you're doing is fixing someone's name or some other non-major adjustments.

Good luck

[JIPNET]

I am not in editing mode when this appears. I just place the cursor in a document when I want to highlight or underline text.

[JIPNET]

I have Reading disabled. Restarting seems to help so far.

[JIPNET]

I think it's trying to read the text outloud. 

[try67]

Try this: Go to Edit (or the Acrobat app menu on a Mac) - Preferences - General and tick off "Make Hand tool read articles", if selected.

[JIPNET]

Thank you. I deselected this. I don't recall having ever selected it, but things happen. Hopefully this will help.