Text Correction Tool

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Text Correction Tool


 

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The Text Correction Text tool is used when editing documents that contain text. It inserts annotations that indicate text should be removed from documents or replaced with different text.

 

Click Text Correction Tool to use this tool:

 

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Figure 1. Comment Tab, Text Correction Tool

 

When the Text Correction Tool is enabled, click and drag over the text that you want to annotate:

 

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Figure 2. Text Correction Tool Active

 

Selected text can be edited as follows:

 

Press Delete to add a strikeout annotation to selected text. Strikeout annotations indicate that text should be deleted and can be edited as detailed here.

Press Insert to add a caret annotation to selected text. Caret annotations indicate that text should be replaced and can be edited as detailed here.

Press Ctrl+V to add a caret annotation to selected text, as with the Insert option, and paste the content of the clipboard in the annotation's pop-up note.

Use the keyboard to enter text. A caret annotation will be added to selected text, as with the Insert option, and the text entered will be added to the annotation's pop-up note.

Press Insert when the Text Correction Tool is enabled, but no text is selected, to add caret annotations at the location of the pointer. Caret annotations indicate that text should be replaced and can be edited as detailed here.