Advanced Edit Ribbons

The following ribbons, menus and panels are available in Advanced Edit mode.

 

File Menu

This has almost the same content as in Review mode.

Home ribbon

Home ribbon in Advanced Edit mode has many groups, some might be hidden. Click the blue outward facing arrowheads on the left or right of the ribbon area to see hidden groups

Clipboard group

Has the same tools as in Review mode. Since PDF body text has become editable, the Cut tool does cut selected text, in contrast to Review mode, where only comment or typewriter text can be cut.

Edit group

Undo and redo actions, select items and use a format painter. These tools can be placed in the Quick Access bar (on the left in the Title bar) to make them more accessible.

Text group

This provides word-processor-like tools to change font, size, attributes (bold, italic, underline...), apply bullets or numbering and set indents. Click Styles to open the Styles panel (see below).

 

Paragraph group

Display the Paragraph dialog box or directly set alignment, borders and shading, line spacing or character spacing (distribution).

Guides group

View rulers, grids and gridlines, turn Snap to Grid on or off.

Page Layout group

Define columns, page size and text direction.

Search group

Use a word-processor-like Find and Replace dialog box.

 

Insert ribbon

Pages group

Insert blanks pages, column, section or page breaks.

Images group

Open the Clip Art or Graphics panel (see below) or browse to insert an image from your file system.

Further groups

Insert links, text boxes, symbols, tables headers, footers and page numbering. Use the Table tool drop-down list to also modify tables already located in the PDF.

 

View ribbon

This provides a subset of the tools in the View ribbon in Review mode.

 

Track ribbon

This ribbon provides similar functionality as comments handling and Markup tools in Review mode, but through a word-processor-like interface tracking and reviewing changes.

 

Help ribbon

Identical to the Help ribbon in Review mode.

 

The Panel bar in Advanced Edit

The panel area has fewer choices than in Review mode. These are:

styles icon

Styles: This panel lists all paragraph styles found in the document. Create, delete or modify styles.

document map icon

Document Map: This panel lists all heading styles found in the document. This has content only if the document contains styles called 'Heading 1', 'Heading 2' etc. It serves only to view the heading hierarchy. Use the Styles panel to make changes.

graphics icon

Graphics: Choose and insert graphics from a library with three categories: Basic shapes, Lines and Stars. A tool allows freehand shapes to be drawn.

clip art icon

Clip Art panel: Identical to the panel in Review mode.

auto-recovery icon

Auto-recovery: Identical to the panel in Review mode.

 

In Advanced Edit mode the Panel bar does not include the Select tool. To select items, use the tool at Home > Edit. The Select tool is by default also placed in the Quick Access bar.

 

See also Advanced Edit Mode.