Where has the Replace Text tool gone since update yesterday?

Finally figured out how to use the new Adobe Acrobat Pro DC!

Click on the comment or sticky note tool.

Highlight the text you wish to strikethrough or replace.

Right click on highlighted item.

Choose the appropriate tool (strikethrough, add note to replace text, add note, highlight, edit, etc.)

The comment list will appear on the right side of the page.

Type your replaced text in the comment box and click post.

To delete or edit a change, click on the three dots at the top right corner of that comment in the list, and select your desired option.

To add a sticky note, click on the comment tool, move your comment cursor to the desired spot, right click, and select your tool. Sticky note is at the very top.

Good luck to all of you!

Since Adobe Reader is a free program you shouldn't be able to edit with the Replace option. I would open an Adobe Pro if you want more options.

Also, if you are in a Portfolio you wont be able to edit.

What a terrible "improvement"! The select and replace text by typing does not work.

@chemistrykaren,

Have you tried this shortcut?

1. Select and highlight (or strikethrough) some text.
2. Double-click the highlight or strikethrough. A note pops open for that text.

I use this method *all the time* (especially since Adobe took away the toolbar icons). It's much easier than right-clicking on some special part of the screen.

This isn't an acceptable workflow for me either. I need to mark up proofs with changes for my team to implement in InDesign. The new replacement tool doesn't give me a way to alert them to the copy that requires changes. Ug.

Sorry to say, but this question is not answered to my satisfaction.

First none of the so called "auto" text editing features work for me.

I find it very difficult to get rid of the dragging "hand".After a few seconds of doing nothing it will go, but and when it does eventually go, I cannot place the cursor at a point and move it along a line - there is no cursor.

I suspect that this may be the reason that clicking and then starting to type does NOTHING.

Dragging to highlight text and pressing "delete" key does NOTHING.

Dragging to highlight text and starting to type does NOTHING.

Right clicking rarely gives me any useful options - it is not the correct menu that comes up.

So please can we have some proper functionality back - esp my cursor which has completely disappeared.

Hi Folks,

They removed the replace text tool and I think we've moved backwards in functionality.

You can however use the strikethrough text tool - and then add your new text inside the comment afterwards.

Hope this helps

I agree with all the comments about the careless way Adobe handled this update. They are looking more like Microsoft Office 365 every day.

Re: T* tool -- No such thing (AFIK). It's geek-speak for all of the text tools that start with "T" -- the * is a wildcard. Either the hapless support folks are simply repeating what they hear from engineers, or copy-pasting from poorly written internal release notes.

Re: Missing "select and replace text" tool -- the workarounds do replicate the function of the simple, intuitive tool bar icon. Why make something hard when it used to be easy, and then call it an "improvement"?

Re: Missing "select and comment" tool -- Same. One of the support folks (repeating what someone told them) said these two tools are "redundant" because there are different ways to do the same thing.

What Adobe fails to realize (or doesn't care to), is that they are making these functions (the most helpful to writers & editors) MORE difficult for reviewers who do NOT use Adobe every day, and who are very resistant to it. I have been evangelizing for my reviewers to use PDF commenting instead of (ack) Microsoft Word reviewing tools, which they gravitate to by default. Word is a tool they understand and use frequently. Adobe Reader is nothing more than a PDF viewer to them, not the collaboration tool that it can be (and is, among savvy users). Taking away easy features and replacing them with hidden shortcuts is not helping my cause! It is a sure way to keep my reviewers flocking to Word.

Changing the default color of crossed-out text to be replaced from blue to red is unfortunate. Formerly, the blue strikeouts signaled new text, because the teeny, tiny, blue carets are way too easy to miss. If I see a swath of text with red cross-outs, I am likely to just delete it all, unless I'm careful to check the comment panel. Yes, you can change the color back to blue -- but again, I consider this a workaround for a regression bug.

Also, I don't care for the new bottom-right position of the check-box for individual comments in the comment pane. I prefer at the top right.

Adobe handled this update very badly. The new workflow is good (at least no worse than the old one) but they made no effort to inform people that they'd changed it. All their online help stuff and videos still show the old toolbar and workflow. They also forgot to tell their support people about the change, because when I spoke to them on Friday, they had no idea what I was talking about. Just dumb.

Hi ,

Thanks for reaching us.

The color of highlight change is expected behavior and you can also change the color by using color picker tool which gets activated when you select the Highlight Tool.

For query 2 #

Replace Text is now enhanced and integrated with smart T* tool .

For Replace Text now you just have to select the text and start typing ,

You can also check Pop up behavior settings in Commenting preference and check " Automatically open comment pop-ups for comments other than notes".

With this option enable you just need to highlight the text and pop up will open in comment list.

For more detail : What's new in Adobe Acrobat DC

Thanks

Acrobat Team