How to edit, move, and resize fields in a PDF

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Everything you add to a PDF in AnyPDFfiller stays editable until you download. You can change a text box, move a check mark, or resize a signature as many times as you like. A mistake never means starting over.

This guide covers changing fields you have already placed. To add new ones, see text fields, check and X marks, and signatures.

Select a field

Click any field on the page to select it. The left sidebar then shows that field’s settings, such as its text, font, and size.

Edit the text in a text box

There are two ways:

On the page. Double-click the text box, then type. Press Enter to finish. Press Shift + Enter to add a new line.
In the sidebar. Select the text box and change the words in the Value box.

Typed something wrong while editing on the page? Press Esc. The box goes back to the text it had before.

Move a field

Click and drag the field to where it should go. Line text up with the printed line under it. Center check marks inside their boxes.

Resize a field

Select the field and pull one of its edges. Make text boxes wide enough for the whole answer. Keep check marks a little smaller than the box they sit in.

Change the font and size

Select a text box, then pick a new Font or Font size in the sidebar. Each field keeps its own style. So a name line can use large letters while a small box on the same page uses small ones.

Tip: set the font and size before you add fields. New fields use whatever is chosen at that moment, so a whole form can match with no extra work.

Delete a field

Select the field, then do one of these:

press Delete or Backspace,
click the trash icon in the sidebar, or
right-click the field and choose Delete field.

Fields on other pages

Each field belongs to the page you placed it on. To change a field on another page, go to that page first.

Check your progress

The Document completion bar in the left sidebar shows how many of your text fields have text in them, across all pages. Check marks and signatures are not counted. It is a quick way to spot a blank you missed.

Be careful with Reset

The Reset button closes the whole document. It removes the PDF and every field you added, so you can start again with a new file. There is no undo. If you might need your work later, download it first. Premium users can also save it as a project.