Comments on: Acrobat: Set default comment identity

By: conrad

conrad — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:21:21 +0000

I’m on Macs, so I hope a Windows user can jump in here and help you out!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:45:00 +0000

I’m running Acrobat 8 Standard, and following these steps exactly did not do the trick for me. I even changed my Windows login name and rebooted, and Acrobat kept the old, cryptic default login name that came standard on my work computer.

Does anyone know the trick for getting this to work in Acrobat 8?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:20:43 +0000

This was driving me crazy (I realize I’m resurrecting a 4-year-old thread here, but so be it).

The key here is that the “make current properties default” button, at least on my install of Acrobat 7, is only visible when right-clicking a COMMENT balloon, even though the properties also apply to edited text notes (i.e. deleting or changing text). Argggghhh.

By: conradc

conradc — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:56:05 +0000

Ben, the last paragraph of the entry answers your question.
The preference doesn’t do what you would expect, so more steps are necessary.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:53:40 +0000

Thanks. 1-4, sure, but 5-9? Amazing that this should be a 9 step process.

By: astro

astro — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:15:42 +0000

Thanks! This was driving me crazy, but the very last tips here about ctrl-clicking the note icon, with the note closed, was the solution.

By: snowman

snowman — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:18:48 +0000

Great! That definitely works if I close the comment and then right click on the comment “balloon” on the main page. Thanks for your assistance. Adobe needs to put this in their help file!

By: conradc

conradc — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:28:55 +0000

Hmmm…you are right, I just tried this and sometimes “Make Current Properties Default” doesn’t appear, yet sometimes it does.

It seems to appear reliably if I right-click directly on the comment itself, on the page, not inside the pop-up window that you get if you double-click the comment. It looks like the command doesn’t appear if the pop-up window is open. So try right-clicking on the comment on the page, with the pop-up window closed.

“Make Current Properties Default” should appear near the bottom of the context menu, just above Properties.

And thanks for pointing that out. I’ll edit the blog post itself later when I’m not on a deadline…

By: snowman

snowman — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:20:23 +0000

I tried these steps. Everything up to #9 works. I don’t have the option for “Make Current Properties Default”. I’m using Acrobat 7 Pro.