Editing text from the context menu

When text is selected, you can also edit it using the options available on its context menu. To open selected text’s context menu, right-click (Control+click on the Mac) the text with the TouchUp Text tool. The context menu includes the following options:

• Cut: Removes selected text from the PDF document and adds it to the Clipboard.
• Copy: Copies selected text to the Clipboard.
  
• Paste: Inserts text stored in the Clipboard into selected text or onto the current document page if no text is selected.
• Delete: Removes selected text.
• Select All: Selects all text within a bounding box on the current document page.
• Select None: Deselects all text within a bounding box on the current document page.
• Create/Delete Artifact: Designates or deletes text or an object in a PDF as either a Page (such as printing crop marks), Pagination (such as page numbers), or Layout (such as dividing lines between columns of text or footnotes) Artifact that may or may not be included in the document when it is repurposed in another format. For example, you may want printer’s marks on a PDF that will be printed, but not on the same PDF repurposed as a Web page.
• Insert: Inserts various formatting elements into your text selection that improve the flow of text when you right-click and choose the desired element on the Insert submenu. Options available are: Line Break, Soft Hyphen (that is, one that disappears when the word doesn’t break across two lines), Non-Breaking Space (a space that keeps hyphenated words together on the same line at all times), and Em Dash (a longerthan-usual dash usually equal to the width of the letter M in the selected text that does permit line breaks across words).

When you finish editing text, click the Hand tool to ensure that you don’t inadvertently select other lines of text and do unintentional editing to them. Just be aware that you can’t use your good ol’ H keystroke shortcut to select the Hand tool because this only succeeds in typing the letter h in the line! Remember that some PDF files use the restrictions in the Changes Allowed security option to prevent anyone from making further editing changes. When this option is in effect in your document, you can’t get the TouchUp Text tool to select any text in the PDF document no matter how hard you click.