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Acrobat X - commenting: having to click on the Insert text/replace text every time for making changes

dchouhan
Registered: Jan 16 2011
Posts: 4
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I am a longtime user of Acrobat, but am just trying out Acrobat X and am having a lot of difficulties with the commenting. I am noticing that in order to continually mark changes in the text (using either the replace text or insert text tools) you need to click back on the buttons every single time before writing. In Acrobat 9, you were able to just start writing and your text would automatically replace or insert text where ever your cursor was placed.
 
Is there a way to get this back again in Acrobat X? Perhaps some preference/or setup option I haven't selected? It's driving me absolutely nuts....

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 10.0, Windows
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Accepted Answer
The keyboard shortcuts are the Insert and Delete keys:

Select a block of text and press DEL to redline it.

Select a block of text and press INS to blueline it, then just type your replacement text.

To insert text, just put your cursor at the appropriate place, press INS and type.
dchouhan
Registered: Jan 16 2011
Posts: 4
Ahh - that's great! Thanks USVAR - that certainly makes things much easier. However, I have a few other questions maybe you could also help with:

1) If you have to use the keyboard shortcut keys, is there a way to keep it selected and mark throughout (like say you are redlining a large document, or adding blocks of text for a few pages). Can you do something so that the S or DEL keys remain selected?

2) Is this the same set-up (using keyboard shortcuts) used for Acrobat X for the Mac (I primarily use a Mac, but just got the trial Acrobat X for my PC.)

3) Can you customize/assign the keyboard shortcuts yourself?

Thanks for all your help!
Danielle
UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
1) Right-click on the icon for the tool in the Comments Pane, and choose "keep tool selected" - then each time you click or click-drag something, it will be redlined or bluelined. Same works for all the other markup tools.

2) Keyboard shortcuts for Win and Mac are broadly the same except for the "Ctrl" > "CMD" key switch for some of the modifiers.3) Sorry, no - keyboard shortcuts are not customizable in the current version of Acrobat X.
dchouhan
Registered: Jan 16 2011
Posts: 4
AHhh - thank you thank you! You have totally made my day!