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Adding Text to a PDF Using Adobe Acrobat

A Portable Document Format (PDF) may require a you to add text such as a date, check mark or comment. Text can be
added to a PDF using the free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader or using Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud (DC). You can
download Adobe Acrobat Reader for free from the UNC-Chapel Hill Software Distribution page.

Opening a PDF in Adobe Acrobat 3. Move the cursor to the location on the PDF
where you wish to add a text box.
Follow these steps to open a document in either Adobe
Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat DC: 4. Left click your mouse.
1. Open your Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat 5. Type text into the text box field
DC application.
2. Select Open File from the list of options.

6. Left click outside of the text box to set the position


3. Find and select the file you wish to open. of the text on the document.
Note: To add additional text, repeat steps 3
Result: The selected file opens in Adobe Acrobat.
through 5 for each text box you want to add.

Adding a Text Box to a PDF 7. Click Save under the file tab to save the document
with the added text.
Follow these steps to add text to a PDF in Adobe
Acrobat: Text Box Options in Adobe Acrobat
1. Select Fill & Sign from the tools listed on the right Once you have inserted a text box onto a PDF, Adobe
side of the screen. Acrobat provides displays options to edit the text box
content.

Toggles between text box options.

Decreases size of text.

Note: If using Adobe Acrobat Reader, the Who Increases size of text.
needs to fill and sign? a pop-up window will
appear. Deletes text.
2. Click the Fill and sign button.
Creates cells for each typed letter.

You can also insert any of the symbols below on a PDF


using the Adobe Acrobat text box options. These
options are also located in the toolbar at the top of
your document as seen below.

Result: Your cursor will change to while


hovering over the PDF.

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