Microsoft Edge is one of the finest products of Microsoft today, and finally, a web browser by the company that is actually making users switch to it. Over the last few years since its inception with Windows 10, it has evolved quite a bit, and the recent switch in the browsing engine to Chromium has unleashed new features with major improvements.
One great feature of Microsoft Edge is the ability to edit PDF documents to do minor yet useful changes to a document. That said, today I will basically talk about how to edit a PDF document in Microsoft Edge. You won’t get advanced features like professional PDF editing tools, but what you will get for free is going to cater to most of your everyday needs.
So, without any further delay, let’s get started with how to edit a PDF document in Microsoft Edge, totally for free.
How to edit a PDF document in Microsoft Edge?
To get started, open the PDF document that you want to edit. If the PDF document is getting opened with another PDF reader on your system, like Adobe Reader, right-click on the document, hover over to ‘Open with’, and then click on ‘Microsoft Edge’. This will open the document with Microsoft Edge.
Now, you will get a top panel where you can find all the options to edit the PDF document.
Rotating a PDF document
You can use the rotate button or the rotate shortcut key i.e. ‘Ctrl + [’ to rotate the document counter-clockwise, and ‘Ctrl + ]’ to rotate a PDF document clockwise. Additionally, you can also use the rotate button, as shown in the screenshot below.
Drawing on a PDF document
No matter whether a PDF document is composed of text or images, you can always draw on a PDF document, for several reasons, say annotating an important part of the document. To get started click on the small drop-down icon just beside the ‘Draw’ icon.
Here, you can select a color from the 30 different shades available. You can also use the slider to set the thickness of the pencil. Now simply draw anywhere on the PDF document.
You can simply click on the ‘Draw’ button if you want to draw anywhere on the document without making any changes in the color or the pencil thickness.
Highlighting on a PDF document on Microsoft Edge
If there’s something important in a PDF document that you want to highlight, you can highlight it using the ‘Highlight’ option.
To get started with highlighting a PDF document on Microsoft Edge, click on the drop-down menu just beside the ‘Highlight’ option to choose the color of the highlighter. There are 5 shades to choose from. Once you are done, you can start highlighting worthwhile things in the PDF document.
Using the highlighter on Microsoft Edge, you can highlight all types of elements, including images, texts, and others.
However, you can enable ‘Text only highlight’ to limit the highlighter to just highlight text elements, as shown in the screenshot above.
How to type on PDF in Microsoft Edge?
If a situation arises, where you need to type on PDF, you can do that with Microsoft Edge pretty easily, and that too for free. There aren’t several options to write text, however, it should get your job done.
To get started with how to type on PDF in Microsoft Edge, simply click on ‘Add text’ in the PDF edit panel above the document.
Now, place the textbox in that part of the document where you want to type.
Now, you have to type the text. There aren’t many text customization options like that in premium PDF editing tools, just like I said before. However, you can change the font color, increase or decrease the font size, and modify the spacing between characters.
Even though you cannot revert the changes using the Undo feature like other popular programs, there’s an eraser, as shown in the screenshot below, to erase the drawings, and highlighted elements within the document.
So, that’s how to type on PDF in Microsoft Edge.
Saving and printing the edited PDF document
Well, now that you know how to edit a PDF document in Microsoft Edge, you can print the document, save the changes to the original document, or create a copy of the existing PDF with the changes.
After you are done you can use the ‘Ctrl + P’ hotkey to print the PDF or use the ‘Ctrl + S’ hotkey to the original document. You can get all these options in the edit panel as shown in the screenshot below.
So, that’s basically how to edit a PDF document in Microsoft Edge. Well, there aren’t rich options to edit the document like other premium tools. But that’s what you are getting totally for free with Microsoft Edge.
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