Adobe: Editing Adobe Acrobat Files

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  1. Open the Adobe Acrobat software. We have instructions for downloading the software in our Adobe Creative Cloud: Instructions for Downloading article.
  2. Click Edit.
    Clicking the Edit menu option to edit a .pdf
  3. A new window pops up with options:
    Adobe screen with edit icons
  4. You have both page options and content options under Edit. For page options, you can choose to rotate the page, crop the page, delete a page, extract a page, or organize pages. Some of these options only make sense if you have more than one page, like if you have two pages and only wanted one, you could choose to delete a page entirely or extract a page so that it would be its own pdf. If your two pages were out of order, you could re-arrange them with organize pages.
  5. Add text by clicking on the Text icon under Add Content, moving to the page screen, clicking in the desired location, and typing new content.
    Highlighted Text icon to add/modify text within the .pdf
  6. To edit existing text, click in a text box and add/remove text.
    Area to edit text
  7. To format text, including font, size, and color, select the text and choose options on the left-hand section.
    Section to change font, text size, etc.
  8. To add an image, click the image icon on the left. Choose the image you would like to insert, then click in the pdf where you want the image to appear.
    Clicking on the image can allow you to change it in Acrobat
  9. To edit an image, click on an image in the pdf.
    Options available when you click on an image
  10. You can flip, crop, align, rotate, or arrange the image.
  11. Once you are finished, click File and Save.
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