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braydon
braydon
Inspiring
January 26, 2024
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Text-box tool gone?

  • January 26, 2024
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Has the text-box tool that used to be in the 'Fill & Sign' panel been removed? I haven't been able to find it since the update, it's very frustrating.

I'm running the full version of Acrobat DC. I know I can go into the Edit Page tab and sometimes I'm able add text boxes, depending on how the document is formatted (but not always). But this is not what I'm wanting to do. How do I find the olod tool I was familiar with?

    Correct answer Abambo

    Is this the tool you are looking for?

     

    2 replies

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    MDennison
    Participant
    February 22, 2024

    Can you have a border around a text box?  You could in previous version, but I have not been able to since this last upgrade.

    M
    MDennison
    Participant
    February 29, 2024

    Finally found it.  Now called "Add text comment".  Hope this helps.

     

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    1Ronegade
    Participant
    March 27, 2025

    Sorry, but that's NOT it.  The old text box allowed one to show a border around text, the text comment does not.  The box around text made it easy to really highlight a comment in a document to be returned to the originator.  The borderless text is much easier to miss unless one uses really obnoxious colors. 

     

    IMHO;  this was a big miss by Adobe to lose that functionality.

      Abambo
      Community Expert
      AbamboCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      January 27, 2024

      Is this the tool you are looking for?

       

      ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
        braydon
        braydonAuthor
        Inspiring
        February 4, 2024

        It is. Thanks you! But it is extremely weird - sometimes that button is there, sometimes it's not. Perhaps it's how the document has been saved, before I've recieved it. Eg. however the author has set the edit permissions? I encountered a bunch of documents in a row where that button just wasn't there, and started to think the function had been removed. But I checked on a documented I'd authored, and it is there. Confusing and frustrating!

          Abambo
          Community Expert
          AbamboCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          February 5, 2024

          The new interface is full of surprises. You could test this by locking own documents and seeing how it evolves. 

          ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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