how to remove identical text from every page of document

[emerald]

I have adobe acrobat writer v5 and wish to remove an incorrect line which appears on all pages of a large document. Is there a faster way than having to delete them one page at a time?

 

[horqua]

Emerald,
One approach might be to start with your original doc in its native format i.e. Word, PageMaker, etc. and remove the duplicated text there with Find and Replace tools. Then, re-PDF the doc. Unfortunately, you lose your bookmarks and they'll have to be re-done.

Otherwise, the only other method I'm aware of is the one you describe, One Page At A Time.


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[TashaGoddard]

Another possible workaround (not the ideal way to do it by far, but if you can't go back to the original...) is to create a form box with a white background to cover the piece of text, make it read-only (and make sure it is set to Visible) and then duplicate it over all the pages. Obviously this would leave a white gap, so it depends where it is on the page.

The best thing, though, would be to do as horqua said, but then in the first PDF you can use the Replace Pages feature so that you don't lose all your bookmarks and links (though that would only work if the whole document hadn't repaginated because of the deleted text).

There may be other workarounds, but I'd need to see the document before I could suggest them.