How to Change Your Name for Existing Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat

Have you ever used Adobe Acrobat’s comment and mark-up tools to edit an entire document only to realize afterward that you should have used a generic name, such as Editor, rather than your own name? This tutorial demonstrates how to change your name for existing comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat—so you no longer have to live with an unwanted moniker (at least not in Acrobat).

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Last week’s tutorial explained how to change the name for new comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat. As mentioned in that tutorial, there are other ways to change your name for Acrobat’s comments and mark-ups; however, this tutorial is limited to the method I have found to be the most reliable.

Change Your Name for Existing Comments and Mark-Ups

1. Right click any comment or mark-up and then select Show Comment App to open the Comment pane.

2. Select the Sort Comments button.

3. Select Author to display the comments and mark-ups alphabetically by name.

4. Select the Filter Comments button.

5. Select Reviewer.

6. Select your name to display all of your comments and mark-ups in the Comment pane.

7. Select your first comment or mark-up in the Comment pane and then hold the Shift key as you select your last comment or mark-up in order to select all of your comments and mark-ups.