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Editing Adobe PDF Documents
Copying and pasting text, tables, images, and graphics
You can use Adobe Reader to select text, a table, an image, or a graphic in an Adobe PDF
document, copy it to the clipboard, or paste it into a document in another application.
Copying and pasting small amounts of text
The Select Text tool enables you to select text or columns of text in an Adobe PDF
document. You can use the Copy and Paste commands to copy the selected text into
another application.
You can specify in the General preferences that whenever the Hand tool hovers over
text in an Adobe PDF document, it automatically functions as the Select Text tool. (See
“General preferences” on page 69.)
Select text by dragging from an insertion point to an end point or by dragging diagonally over text.
If the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands are dim when you select text, the creator of the PDF
document may have set restrictions against copying text. (See “Getting information on
PDF documents” on page 62.)
Note: If a font copied from a PDF document is not available on the system displaying the
copied text, the font cannot be preserved. A default font is substituted.
To select characters, spaces, words or lines of text:
Select the Select Text tool
, and do one of the following:
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Click to create an insertion point at the beginning of the text to be selected, and then
drag to the end of the text. (You can also click to create an insertion point, and shiftclick to create a second insertion point. The text between the two insertion points is
selected.)
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Double-click to select a word.
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Triple-click to select a line of text.
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Click four times to select all the text in a page.
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To extend a selection letter by letter, press Shift and move the arrow key in the direction
you want to extend the selection. To extend a selection word by word, press Shift+Ctrl
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