Adobe Acrobat 8 3D - Manual (Page 257)

250 ADOBE ACROBAT 3D VERSION 8
User Guide
Text marked for redaction (left), and redacted (right)
1 Choose View > Toolbars > Redaction.
2 (Optional) To set the appearance of redaction marks, click Redaction Properties.
3 Select the Mark For Redaction tool .
4 Mark items you want to remove by doing any of the following:
• Double-click to select a word or image.
• Press Ctrl/Control as you drag to select a line, a block of text, an object, or an area. Use this method to select areas
of a page in a scanned document.
To preview how your redaction marks will look, hold the pointer over the marked area.
5 To redact the marked items, click Apply Redactions in the Redaction toolbar.
6 Click OK to remove the items. The items aren’t permanently removed from the document until you save it.
7 If you want to search for and remove hidden information in the document by using the Examine Document
feature, click Yes. Otherwise, click No.
8 Choose File > Save, and specify a filename and location. If you don’t want to overwrite the original file, save the
file to a different name, location, or both.
Search and redact words
Use the Search And Redact tool to find and remove words or phrases in one or more PDFs that contain searchable text.
Note: The Search And Redact tool doesn’t search secured (encrypted) PDFs.
1 Choose View > Toolbars > Redaction, and select the Search And Redact tool .
2 In the text box, type the word or phrase you want to remove.
3 Specify if you want to search the current PDF or PDFs in another location.
4 Select Whole Words Only and Case-Sensitive if you want to apply these conditions to the search.
5 Click Search And Redact.
6 In the search results, click the plus sign (+) next to the document name to see all occurrences of the word or
phrase. Then, select the occurrences you want to mark for redaction:
• To select all occurrences in the list, click Check All.
• To select individual occurrences, click the check box for each one you want to redact. Click the text next to a check
box to view the occurrence on the page.