Editing an existing text

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Editing an existing text

FreePDF: Editing text that already exists is not possible with FreePDF.

You edit existing text as follows:

1.Select the Text edit tool icon_tool_text-edit in the Quick access toolbar.
2.Click on a block of text to start editing. The block of text to be edited will be highlighted with a border and the ruler will be enabled.
You can now choose the commands of the ribbon tab Home | group Character to format the text. For more information on formatting, see Formatting text.
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3.When you start editing, spacing, paragraph marks and line breaks are displayed in pink. These become invisible again after completing the editing.
By choosing the command Home | group Text box | Non-printable characters icon_unprintable_signs, you can disable the appearance of these characters (not available in FreePDF).
4.To see the boundaries of all text boxes on a page, choose the ribbon command View | group View | Text box boundaries icon_textbox_borders (not available in FreePDF).
5.To insert a line break without starting a new paragraph, press Shift+Enter key.
6.The ruler above the page shows you the width of the page, the first-line indent as well as the right and left indents.
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Drag the margin markers shown above to change the indent to the right, left and in the first line.

Notes

For more information, see Basic text editing.