How do you erase text in Acrobat Pro

[John Cali III]

I need to erase text. How do you do that?

[CtDave]

Have you tried the Redaction Tool (in Acrobat 8 & 9)?

Be well...

[John Cali III]

No, I have not.  Would that help me delete text that was put into

the document in a previous version?

[~graffiti]

Yes.

[Bill12]

You can also use the text touchup tool and simply mark the text to delete and hit delete. Be sure to use Save As and not Save to get rid of what you delete.

[SebastiaoV]

Interesting...sorry but i cannot get to do it right. I do use the touchup tool, select text, hit Delete and the word has a red line crossed. I thought it was only a functional display of showing the text is deleted but when i save as with another name I still get the word with the red cross and the web link is still active.

Why is that? What am i doing wrong?

[~graffiti · Accepted solution]

Are you sure you are using the touchup text tool and not the text edits tool? Sounds like it's marking it for deletion. The text edits tool is for commenting only.

[SebastiaoV]

Thanks, you were right! i got those two icons mixed up.

Cheers,
S

[Ron1955]

I have lost hours trying to find the eraser in Pro! Just cleaning up marks and words. UGH!!!

[Nicky27477812rxvq]

Me too - please help!

[try67]

That's because there's no such tool in Acrobat, only for Pencil-type comments. There is a redaction tool, though.