How To Get Out Of Edit Mode In Word

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The search returns topics that contain terms you enter. If you type more than one term, an OR is assumed, which returns topics where any of the terms are found.

The search also uses fuzzy matching to account for partial words (such as install and installs). The results appear in order of relevance, based on how many search terms occur per topic. Exact matches are highlighted.

To refine the search, you can use the following operators:

Type + in front of words that must be included in the search or - in front of words to exclude. (Example: user +shortcut –group finds shortcut and user shortcut, but not group or user group.)
Use * as a wildcard for missing characters. The wildcard can be used anywhere in a search term. (Example: inst* finds installation and instructions.)
Type title: at the beginning of the search phrase to look only for topic titles. (Example: title:configuration finds the topic titled "Changing the software configuration.")
For multi-term searches, you can specify a priority for terms in your search. Follow the term with ^ and a positive number that indicates the weight given that term. A higher number indicates more weight. (Example: shortcut^10 group gives shortcut 10 times the weight as group.)
To use fuzzy searching to account for misspellings, follow the term with ~ and a positive number for the number of corrections to be made. (Example: port~1 matches fort, post, or potr, and other instances where one correction leads to a match.)

Note that operators cannot be used as search terms: + - * : ~ ^ ' "

Advanced Edit Mode

Power PDF offers two working modes:

Review Mode
Advanced Edit Mode

The latter allows freer editing of document content, especially text. It offers a wide range of editing, reviewing and mark-up tools, similar to those found in word processor applications.

Documents with security protection against modifications cannot be sent to Advanced Edit Mode. Image-only PDF documents or pages enter the mode as images. To modify their text content, you should make them searchable.

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Select to enter the Advanced Edit Mode.

Select to exit the Advanced Edit Mode.

When you switch from Review Mode to Advanced Edit Mode, the PDF document is analyzed and transformed. A message informs you of likely changes, for instance that tags and layers are removed. It also offers conversion settings.

You are prompted to make a backup copy of the original PDF before entering Advanced Edit mode, since the conversion may occasionally encounter difficulties with text flow, formatting and character spacing. If advanced editing does not produce the desired results, you can close the document without saving it, and return to the previous PDF review state.

Alternatives to Advanced Editing are to use the Typewriter tool, or the Text Box tool on a PDF that you later flatten to force text box content to become part of the PDF. However, these tools allow only minor text changes, whereas Advanced Edit Mode supports more extensive modifications.

Tip When advanced edits are complete, you are prompted to use the Finalize tool in the Home tab to make the changes permanent and remove unnecessary flowing layout metadata from the document. Before the document is made available to others, perform the Finalize process.

When you save, print or send the document from Advanced Edit Mode, or you click on the PDF View tab, the document is returned to its state in PDF View, with changes intact.