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

By Erin Wright

My last post explained the basics of how to use Adobe Acrobat DC’s comment and mark-up tools. Today’s post explains how to reply to comments and mark-ups in Adobe Acrobat DC through written responses and by changing the status of individual or multiple comments and mark-ups.

As mentioned in the previous post, Acrobat’s comment and mark-up tools can’t change the document. Instead, they function like handwritten copyediting marks on paper—the tools can be used to indicate what should be changed, but you have to manually create those changes in the original document. Therefore, you should use these tools on a secondary copy of your document rather than the original document.

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Please note that these steps are for Adobe Acrobat DC running on Windows. The steps are similar for Acrobat XI.

Reply to Comments and Mark-Ups in Adobe Acrobat DC

You can reply to other reviewers’ comments or mark-ups in two ways:

Method One

1. Right click on the comment or mark-up in the text.

2. Select Reply.

3. Write your response in the pop-up note.

Adobe Acrobat DC Comment Reply

Method Two

1. Select the comment or mark-up in the comments list in the right-hand pane.

2. Select Reply.

3. Write your response in the sidebar.

Adobe Acrobat DC Comment Reply In Sidebar

The other reviewers will then be able to see your reply (after you save your changes to community storage or send them the shared file, of course).

Set the Status as Accepted, Cancelled, Completed, or Rejected

There are also two ways to set the status of individual comments and mark-ups:

Method One—Individual Comments and Mark-Ups

1. Right click on the comment or mark-up in the text.

2. Select Set Status.

3. Select Accepted, Cancelled, Completed, or Rejected. (The default status is None.)

Adobe Acrobat DC Status Set

Method Two—Individual Comments and Mark-Ups

1. Right click on the comment or mark-up in the comments list in the right-hand pane.

2. Select Set Status.

3. Select Accepted, Cancelled, Completed, or Rejected. (The default status is None.)

Adobe Acrobat DC Status Set in Sidebar

If you have multiple comments or mark-ups that require the same status, you can change them all simultaneously. Again, there are two methods to accomplish this task:

Method One—Multiple Comments and Mark-Ups

1. Select the first comment or mark-up in the text.

2. Press the Ctrl key as you select the other comments or mark-ups.

3. Right click on one of the selected comments or mark-ups.

4. Select Set Status.

5. Select Accepted, Cancelled, Completed, or Rejected. (The default status is None.)

Method Two—Multiple Comments and Mark-Ups

1. Select the first comment or mark-up in the comments list in the right-hand pane.

2. Press the Ctrl key as you select the other comments or mark-ups.

(Alternately, you can select a consecutive group by selecting the first comment or mark-up in the group, pressing the Shift key, and then selecting the last one in the group.)

3. Right click on one of the selected comments or mark-ups.

4. Select Set Status.

5. Select Accepted, Cancelled, Completed, or Rejected. (The default status is None.)

When the other reviewers open the shared document, they will then see your replies and any actions you have taken in the original document. For example, if you set a strikethrough as accepted, the other reviewers will know that you agree that the content in question should be deleted; but if you set a strikethrough as completed, the other reviewers will know that you have already manually deleted the content in the original document.

The status itself doesn’t change the content—which is definitely a good thing when multiple reviewers with differing opinions are working on the same document!

Further Reading:

How to Restrict Editing in Adobe Acrobat

Three Differences between Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Pro

How to Find and Replace Text in Adobe Acrobat DC

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

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