Add a text box with bullets

[DomTrump1133]

This seems like it should be so simple, but I can't figure out how to do it.

I open an existing PDF (Acrobat Pro DC). I need to insert a text box with a white background (to cover what is underneath it). In this box, I need to type a bulleted list. Nothing I've tried has worked.

Can someone please provide instructions. Thank you.

• Look
• I can make a bulleted list
• in this forum
• but can't do it in a text box arrgh!

[try67]

You can paste the bullet Unicode character into any text field in a PDF:

• Copy this text and it should work

[DomTrump1133]

I take that as... you can't make a bulleted list in a text box through Acrobat? So you have to actually insert a bullet character - no way to make an outline. That is what I was afraid of. I've even tried to make my list in Word and paste it into the text box, but this doesn't work either. The next line under the bullet returns all the way to the left edge of the box (not aligned with the text above it). Looks terrible.

I guess I could...

• Create the list in Word
• Take a screen shot of it
• crop it
• paste as an image into Acrobat

Sound tedious. Ugh.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Acrobat is not a text processing application (like Word) and trying to use it as such is going to be difficult and tedious, yes. This is the kind of thing you should do in the original file format, before converting it to PDF.