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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Saving and exporting PDFs
Last updated 10/11/2011
Select text by dragging from an insertion point to an end point (left) or by dragging diagonally over text (right).
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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
1 Choose View > Page Display > Single Page View.
2 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.
Select a part of the page
1 Click the Select tool , and press Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS). The pointer changes to .
2 Drag the pointer and draw a rectangle to select a part of the page.
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. This command, which preserves the
column layout, appears only if the document is tagged properly.
You can paste copied text into comments and bookmarks as well as into documents authored in other applications.