How to Find and Replace Text in Adobe Acrobat DC
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- Learn how to find and replace text in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC and Acrobat Standard DC.
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Hi! Almost 5 years later and this video helped fix a very annoying issue with my pdfs!
I installed a macro program and it wiped off unwanted text from 400+ pages within minutes. (It solved the problem of clicking manually.)
For those interested, the program is free (gs auto-clicker), I setted it to click every 50 milisecond and just left the cursor on the "Replace Next" button. Thanks again
Thank you for watching! I am glad to hear that this tutorial helped to fix an annoying issue!
You saved me SOOOOO much time. Thank you for the video!
Excellent! I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful. Thank you for watching!
This was super helpful. Thanks a lot.❤️
I'm so glad it was helpful. Thank you for watching!
Thank you soooo much. This was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful. Thank you for watching!
This is great I am going to recommend to colleagues
Thank you for your support!
Thank you.
Thank you for watching!
This does not work as you get the error message “Unable to highlight text across multiple text boxes.” as soon as you have entered anything in the Replace field and try to start the search.
This error prevents you from performing the text replace operation.
Ever find out how to fix this?
Ma'am ... Is there any way to find the word and replace at once from all pages?
I read the comments, Unfortunately there in no way to replace all.
Thank you for watching my video! Sadly, Acrobat doesn't offer a replace all. Hopefully Adobe will add that feature in the future.
erin could u tell me about how to copy a only text not image and paste some where
Hi Erin Can you please help me? Someone sent me an Acrobat PDF in order to proofread it. I opened it on my computer and saw that the Acrobat I have is called DC. Now I want to start correcting the mistakes but when I clicked on "Edit" nothing happens. I can't highlight the mistake or fix it. Can you please help me? Thx!
Beautiful Tutorial. How can I replace in a 2000 Pages document? Must I repeat the action for 2000 Times? Thank you?
Thank you for watching my video! Unfortunately, Adobe Acrobat doesn't currently have a "replace all" function, so you will have to repeat the action for your entire document. Best of luck!
@@erinwrightwriting Thank you very much
EXPLAINED BEAUTIFULLY
Thank you!
you are welcome
I'm getting an error saying "Unable to highlight text in Form Fields"
Hello Erin, I love your videos. Problems...when i'm using the function FIND for a word, the results are so pale ( greyish) in the page. How can i make the FIND's results more obvious? Thanks
Thank you for watching my videos! That is an interesting question. When I use the Find tool on my version of Acrobat, the results are highlighted with a blue box, but the font color itself doesn't change. Unfortunately, I am not currently aware of a way to change how the results are displayed. If I stumble upon a solution, I will be sure to post about it!
Thank you for your post. When I open a pdf and go to find it finds the word but then when I ask to replace it I get a message saying: "Unable to highlight non editable text". What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for watching! You're probably not doing anything wrong. Acrobat's find and replace tool is a bit limited; so, if your text isn't in editable text boxes, the software won't be able to replace the text. If you have a lot of replacements, you may want to convert to Word, do the replacements, and then reconvert to a PDF. Best of luck!
This was OK, but I really need to know how to replace a long paragraph and there seems to be some limit to the search field?
Thank you for watching my video. I was not able to determine the find and replace character limit through Acrobat's documentation. However, it is normally only used for words and phrases, so it may struggle with longer blocks of text. In that case, you may have to do manual replacement. Best of luck!
what if there is no replace with button?
Hi, Caity. Thank you for visiting my channel! The steps in this tutorial are for Adobe Acrobat DC (Pro and Standard versions). If you're using the free Acrobat Reader, which is a separate software, I'm afraid you won't see the Replace With button because Reader doesn't offer that feature.
Say, I have a big pdf, and that pdf's exact text is "Arial Bold", and the same is "Calipari" now I want to replace all the font with an "Adobe Thai". Now how could we solve this? Please reply If you can.
Thank you for watching! Unfortunately, performing font replacement in large documents in Adobe Acrobat is difficult. If possible, your best option may be to convert the PDF to a Word doc, perform the replacement in Word, and then reconvert it to a PDF.
@@erinwrightwriting But ma'am If I could do it the main design will take a bad effect. Feel hopeless.
You can find the written transcript for this tutorial at erinwrightwriting.com/how-to-find-and-replace-text-in-adobe-acrobat-dc/.
For some reason I don’t get the replace with button
I'm sorry to hear you are having trouble. By chance are you using Acrobat Reader? Unfortunately, the replace function isn't available in Reader.
@@erinwrightwriting maybe I didn’t check that, thanks a lot
Can you make the search option always "search whole words only"?
Thank you for watching! If you select "Open Full Acrobat Search" from the option menu in the small Find dialog box, you can set it to "Search Whole Words Only" for that session. However, I'm not aware of a way to permanently change the settings. Best of luck!
Hi am not find replace option to replace the words, is there any option for that
Are you using Acrobat Reader instead of Adobe Acrobat? Unfortunately, Reader only has the find option, not the replace option.
hi. do you know how to install "A Caslon Pro" font to Adobe Acrobat DC??
Hi, thank you for watching my video. Acrobat uses the fonts installed to your operating system, so you'll have to add that particular font to your Windows or Mac system directly.
How to replace all word at the same time, thanks
Thank you for watching my video. Unfortunately, Adobe Acrobat DC doesn't have a replace all option right now. Hopefully Adobe will add that option in the future.
It's working but one more problem front is changed (ex: PDF file have "Chaparral Pro" front when replacing text then it change Front like a "Minion pro" How to fix it??)
Thank you for watching! Normally, Acrobat will replace the text in the same font as the surrounding text. However, if that's not happening, you may want to go to Edit > Preferences > Content Editing > and then choose the font you want in the "Fallback font for editing" and "Default font for Add Text" options. Best of luck!
@@erinwrightwriting thank you so much.
thank you good video! shame that the feature is so 'dumb' in acrobat! can only do a whole word basic search (with replace option), while the Advanced search finds partial text but doesn't have a replace option!
Thank you for watching! Acrobat seems to be growing in popularity, so I have hope that Adobe will continue to improve the find and replace features.
How would you find and replace the date from April 3, 2020 with April 10, 2020. There are 50k occurances. I have tried the find and replace and it only changes the 1st one and then doesn't find any more.
Adobe Acrobat doesn't currently offer a "replace all" option, so you will have to continue to select the "Next" button to find each occurrence. However, because you have 50k occurrences, you may want to consider saving your PDF as a Word file, using Word to do a "replace all," and then turning the Word file back into a secondary copy of your PDF. Best of luck!
@@erinwrightwriting Thanks for responding. Funny I tried the conversion option this morning in Adobe Pro DC and the file timed out cause of the file size. So stuck Re-running it. Thanks for the idea, good to see great minds think alike!
how to select all instances of a text and change?
Hi, Johnathan. Thank you for watching my video! Currently, Adobe Acrobat doesn't provide a global find-and-replace feature. Hopefully they will add that feature in the future.
@@erinwrightwriting Good to know. Thank you!
How to search a sentence in PDF??
Thank you for watching! You should be able to type the whole sentence into the search box, as shown in this video. Best of luck!
Replace all option missing in such a highly paid app
"Replace With" isn't an option for me for some reason.
Thank you for watching my video! Are you using Acrobat Reader, by chance? If so, the Replace With option is only available in Acrobat.
shouldbe easy but there is no replace button! Jusr installed acrobar reader DC .?
Hi, Doug. Thank you for watching my video. This tutorial is for Adobe Acrobat rather than Reader. Unfortunately, Reader only offers a find option, not a replace option.
i dont have replace white
its black by defualt no white theme
Has this changed?
Hi, Crystal. I just checked the current release of Acrobat running on Windows 10 and didn't see any changes to the Find and Replace tool.
How can I replace all words?
Thank you for watching! I am not aware of a way to automatically replace all the words using the the find and replace tools. However, you could delete the existing text and then manually add new text. I have a separate tutorial about adding text that you may find helpful: th-cam.com/video/-zjF5YN26rk/w-d-xo.html.
@@erinwrightwriting Thank you for your reply. I found out that it is not possible to do it with Adobe Acrobat DC pro. Also whenever I change text, it moves around. Goes up or down for some reason. I am immensly dissapointed.
@@YasinKAYA-do4ek That sounds frustrating. I wish you all the best!
@@erinwrightwriting Yes it is frustrating. I wish you all the best as well!