Select and copy text
1. | Select the Select Text tool , and do one of the following:
• |  | Click to create an insertion point at the beginning of the text to be selected, and then drag to the end of the text to be selected.
• |  | Click to create an insertion point at the beginning of the text to be selected, and then Shift-click to create an insertion point at the end of the text to be selected. The intervening text is selected.
• |  | Double-click to select a word.
• |  | Triple-click to select a line of text.
• |  | Click four times to select all text in a page.
• |  | To extend a selection, press Shift and move the arrow key in the direction of the required extension.
• |  | Drag a selection rectangle over a block or column of text.
2. | Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS), and choose Copy to Clipboard.
To use the Hand tool to select text, select the Enable Text Selection for the Hand Tool option under General Preferences.
Note: If the PDF document was created using a scanner, or if the text is part of an image, text may be recognized as an image rather than as characters that you can select.
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