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Select only one word when press on iPad

New Here ,
Sep 20, 2018 Sep 20, 2018

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On iPad: Is it possible to select only a single word when press? Currently a random number of words before or after that word are selected.

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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 25, 2018 Sep 25, 2018

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Hi Tttong,

Yes, it is possible to select a single word from the text in the PDF.

If you long press on a particular word, only that word gets selected.

If you are not able to select the word in that way, you may drag the selection to the single word or character from the selected text.

Take help of the steps mentioned under "Selecting text" in the following help document Adobe Reader Help for iOS: Annotating Pages.

Hope that helps.

Let us know if you experience any issue.

Regards,

Meenakshi

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New Here ,
Sep 25, 2018 Sep 25, 2018

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Thanks! I knew that, but it selects more than one word most of the time.

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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018

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Could you please check if you experience the similar behavior when you select text in other applications?

Selecting text is not an application feature.

I have tried to replicate the same on our end. It selects one word at a time.

Please try to check on other files or applications.

Let us know how it goes.

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Meenakshi

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New Here ,
Sep 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018

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Other apps work well.

Actually, I tried with the Getting Started pdf, it works well,

But for other pdf (mine are academic papers), it doesn't.

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Adobe Employee ,
Sep 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018

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Is it possible to share any PDF on which you experience this behavior?

We would like to replicate the same on our end.

To share the file you can take help of the steps mentioned here How to share a file using Adobe Document Cloud

You can also initiate a private message to share the file using the steps provided here How Do I Send Private Message

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Meenakshi

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Sep 27, 2018 Sep 27, 2018

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Adobe Employee ,
Nov 30, 2018 Nov 30, 2018

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Hi Tttong,

Sorry for the delay in response.

Are you still experiencing an issue when trying to select the text in PDF?

Please make sure that you are using an updated application.

If the issue still persists, feel free to update the thread.

Let us know if you need any help.

Regards,

Meenakshi

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New Here ,
Sep 24, 2021 Sep 24, 2021

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Hey there, I'm experiencing this issue with a pdf of a book called "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" when selecting one word it selects a random sentence, it works fine with other pdfs, Im using the latest version of the app, is there a way to fix it in 2021? Here's a link to the pdf: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:42518ff7-c89f-4ea0-9a3c-70f4bed6b8b...

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Sep 24, 2021 Sep 24, 2021

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Here is the pdf

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New Here ,
Nov 01, 2022 Nov 01, 2022

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Here I am a year later, fighting the same behavior on Android. Did this have any solution? 

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