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

By Erin Wright

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).

This tutorial is available as a YouTube video showing all the steps in real time.

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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.

Adobe Acrobat DC Show Comment App--Step 1 for to how to change your name for existing comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

2. Select the Sort Comments button.

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

Adobe Acrobat DC Sort Comment Button--Steps 2 and 3 in how to change the name for existing comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

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.

Adobe Acrobat DC Filter Comments Button--Steps 4, 5, and 6 in how to change your name for existing comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

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.

Adobe Acrobat DC Selected Comments and Mark-Ups in the Comment Pane--Step 12 in how to change your name for existing comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

8. Right click one of your comments or mark-ups and then select Properties to open the Properties dialog box.

Adobe Acrobat DC Comment Pane Comment Properties Option--Step 8 in how to change your name for existing comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

9. Select the General tab.

10. Change your name in the Author textbox.

11. Select OK to save your change and close the Properties dialog box.

Adobe Acrobat DC Comment Properties Box--Steps 9, 10, and 11 in how to change your name for existing comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

Your new name should now appear with all of your existing comments and mark-ups.

Adobe Acrobat DC Existing Comments and Mark-Ups with Changed Name

Related Resources

How to Change the Font and Font Size of Comments in Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader (PC & Mac)

How to Reply to Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat

Updated June 11, 2022

Filed Under: Adobe Acrobat Tagged With: Adobe Acrobat DC, copyediting, proofreading, substantive editing

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