Adobe Acrobat XI - Manual (Page 356)

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Saving and exporting PDFs
Last updated 1/14/2015
• If the Cut, Copy, Copy with Formatting, and Paste commands are unavailable when you select text, the author of the
PDF may have set restrictions against copying text.
• If the text you copy uses a font that isn’t available on your system, the font will be substituted with a close match or
a default font.
Select text and images
1 Click the Select tool , and hover over an empty part of the page. Alternatively, press Ctrl (Windows) or
Command (Mac OS); the pointer changes todisplay a rectangle.
2 Drag the pointer and draw a rectangle to select a part of the page.
Select a column of text
1 Using the Select tool , move the pointer toward a column of text. When the pointer changes to a vertical bar with
a box superimposed, the Select tool is in column select mode.
You can force column select mode by pressing Alt as you drag a rectangle over the column of text.
2 Drag a rectangle over the column of text. To select text in more than one column, drag from the beginning of the
text in one column to the end of text you want to select.
Select all the text on a page
Choose View > Page Display > SinglePage View.
1 Do one of the following:
• Choose Edit > Select All.
• Click four times in the text. This method selects all the text on the page regardless of the page layout.
Note: If you choose any other page layout, all the text in the document is selected.
Copy selected text
1 Use the Select tool to select any amount of text on the page.
2 Copy the text:
• Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text to another application.
• Right-click on the selected text, and then select Copy.
• Right-click on the selected text, and then choose Copy With Formatting.
You can paste copied text into comments and bookmarks as well as into documents authored in other
applications.