Align text boxes in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI












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I have a PDF with a table on contents where each line is it's own text box object. I want to align these objects with each other but I can't find a way to do this. There is no "align" command and I can't edit the X-Y location properties of the object.



The only method that I found was to put a guideline on the page and manually drag objects around to get them to line up. This is both a terrible waste of time and doesn't work right.



When I search for help, everything relates back to Acrobat 10 which is no use to me. For some stupid reason, the adobe help documents are only written for Acrobat X.










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  • Have you found any solution so far?
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57
















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I have a PDF with a table on contents where each line is it's own text box object. I want to align these objects with each other but I can't find a way to do this. There is no "align" command and I can't edit the X-Y location properties of the object.



The only method that I found was to put a guideline on the page and manually drag objects around to get them to line up. This is both a terrible waste of time and doesn't work right.



When I search for help, everything relates back to Acrobat 10 which is no use to me. For some stupid reason, the adobe help documents are only written for Acrobat X.










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  • Have you found any solution so far?
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57














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I have a PDF with a table on contents where each line is it's own text box object. I want to align these objects with each other but I can't find a way to do this. There is no "align" command and I can't edit the X-Y location properties of the object.



The only method that I found was to put a guideline on the page and manually drag objects around to get them to line up. This is both a terrible waste of time and doesn't work right.



When I search for help, everything relates back to Acrobat 10 which is no use to me. For some stupid reason, the adobe help documents are only written for Acrobat X.










share|improve this question













I have a PDF with a table on contents where each line is it's own text box object. I want to align these objects with each other but I can't find a way to do this. There is no "align" command and I can't edit the X-Y location properties of the object.



The only method that I found was to put a guideline on the page and manually drag objects around to get them to line up. This is both a terrible waste of time and doesn't work right.



When I search for help, everything relates back to Acrobat 10 which is no use to me. For some stupid reason, the adobe help documents are only written for Acrobat X.







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  • Have you found any solution so far?
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57


















  • Have you found any solution so far?
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57
















Have you found any solution so far?
– Franck Dernoncourt
Dec 19 '16 at 1:57




Have you found any solution so far?
– Franck Dernoncourt
Dec 19 '16 at 1:57










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Use the "select object" tool (the icon/button looks like a regular black mouse pointer) and select all of the text boxes. Right click on the selected text boxes and you should see an "align" sub menu in the context menu.






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  • That works for "interactive objects" but text boxes are not interactive so that selector can't select it.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 18:52










  • Gotcha. How were the text boxes created? My method will work with text boxes added via the comment tools and the typewriter tool.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 18:58










  • I believe they were created when the document was converted from a word processor (I'm assuming Microsoft Word) document to PDF. I'm not all that sure how that conversion happened.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 23:18










  • Acrobat is not really made for editing PDF content. Try extracting the contents page(s) from the PDF, converting it to Word, and editing it there. Otherwise, you can edit the PDF in InDesign.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 23:29












  • I don't see any align in the context menu: i.stack.imgur.com/lBZzP.png the text boxes were created using "add text" in the content editing section.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57













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Use the "select object" tool (the icon/button looks like a regular black mouse pointer) and select all of the text boxes. Right click on the selected text boxes and you should see an "align" sub menu in the context menu.






share|improve this answer





















  • That works for "interactive objects" but text boxes are not interactive so that selector can't select it.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 18:52










  • Gotcha. How were the text boxes created? My method will work with text boxes added via the comment tools and the typewriter tool.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 18:58










  • I believe they were created when the document was converted from a word processor (I'm assuming Microsoft Word) document to PDF. I'm not all that sure how that conversion happened.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 23:18










  • Acrobat is not really made for editing PDF content. Try extracting the contents page(s) from the PDF, converting it to Word, and editing it there. Otherwise, you can edit the PDF in InDesign.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 23:29












  • I don't see any align in the context menu: i.stack.imgur.com/lBZzP.png the text boxes were created using "add text" in the content editing section.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57


















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Use the "select object" tool (the icon/button looks like a regular black mouse pointer) and select all of the text boxes. Right click on the selected text boxes and you should see an "align" sub menu in the context menu.






share|improve this answer





















  • That works for "interactive objects" but text boxes are not interactive so that selector can't select it.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 18:52










  • Gotcha. How were the text boxes created? My method will work with text boxes added via the comment tools and the typewriter tool.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 18:58










  • I believe they were created when the document was converted from a word processor (I'm assuming Microsoft Word) document to PDF. I'm not all that sure how that conversion happened.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 23:18










  • Acrobat is not really made for editing PDF content. Try extracting the contents page(s) from the PDF, converting it to Word, and editing it there. Otherwise, you can edit the PDF in InDesign.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 23:29












  • I don't see any align in the context menu: i.stack.imgur.com/lBZzP.png the text boxes were created using "add text" in the content editing section.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57
















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Use the "select object" tool (the icon/button looks like a regular black mouse pointer) and select all of the text boxes. Right click on the selected text boxes and you should see an "align" sub menu in the context menu.






share|improve this answer












Use the "select object" tool (the icon/button looks like a regular black mouse pointer) and select all of the text boxes. Right click on the selected text boxes and you should see an "align" sub menu in the context menu.







share|improve this answer












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  • That works for "interactive objects" but text boxes are not interactive so that selector can't select it.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 18:52










  • Gotcha. How were the text boxes created? My method will work with text boxes added via the comment tools and the typewriter tool.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 18:58










  • I believe they were created when the document was converted from a word processor (I'm assuming Microsoft Word) document to PDF. I'm not all that sure how that conversion happened.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 23:18










  • Acrobat is not really made for editing PDF content. Try extracting the contents page(s) from the PDF, converting it to Word, and editing it there. Otherwise, you can edit the PDF in InDesign.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 23:29












  • I don't see any align in the context menu: i.stack.imgur.com/lBZzP.png the text boxes were created using "add text" in the content editing section.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57




















  • That works for "interactive objects" but text boxes are not interactive so that selector can't select it.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 18:52










  • Gotcha. How were the text boxes created? My method will work with text boxes added via the comment tools and the typewriter tool.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 18:58










  • I believe they were created when the document was converted from a word processor (I'm assuming Microsoft Word) document to PDF. I'm not all that sure how that conversion happened.
    – Doltknuckle
    May 22 '14 at 23:18










  • Acrobat is not really made for editing PDF content. Try extracting the contents page(s) from the PDF, converting it to Word, and editing it there. Otherwise, you can edit the PDF in InDesign.
    – P Fitz
    May 22 '14 at 23:29












  • I don't see any align in the context menu: i.stack.imgur.com/lBZzP.png the text boxes were created using "add text" in the content editing section.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Dec 19 '16 at 1:57


















That works for "interactive objects" but text boxes are not interactive so that selector can't select it.
– Doltknuckle
May 22 '14 at 18:52




That works for "interactive objects" but text boxes are not interactive so that selector can't select it.
– Doltknuckle
May 22 '14 at 18:52












Gotcha. How were the text boxes created? My method will work with text boxes added via the comment tools and the typewriter tool.
– P Fitz
May 22 '14 at 18:58




Gotcha. How were the text boxes created? My method will work with text boxes added via the comment tools and the typewriter tool.
– P Fitz
May 22 '14 at 18:58












I believe they were created when the document was converted from a word processor (I'm assuming Microsoft Word) document to PDF. I'm not all that sure how that conversion happened.
– Doltknuckle
May 22 '14 at 23:18




I believe they were created when the document was converted from a word processor (I'm assuming Microsoft Word) document to PDF. I'm not all that sure how that conversion happened.
– Doltknuckle
May 22 '14 at 23:18












Acrobat is not really made for editing PDF content. Try extracting the contents page(s) from the PDF, converting it to Word, and editing it there. Otherwise, you can edit the PDF in InDesign.
– P Fitz
May 22 '14 at 23:29






Acrobat is not really made for editing PDF content. Try extracting the contents page(s) from the PDF, converting it to Word, and editing it there. Otherwise, you can edit the PDF in InDesign.
– P Fitz
May 22 '14 at 23:29














I don't see any align in the context menu: i.stack.imgur.com/lBZzP.png the text boxes were created using "add text" in the content editing section.
– Franck Dernoncourt
Dec 19 '16 at 1:57






I don't see any align in the context menu: i.stack.imgur.com/lBZzP.png the text boxes were created using "add text" in the content editing section.
– Franck Dernoncourt
Dec 19 '16 at 1:57




















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