PDF XChange Editor
PDF XChange Editor Information Sheet
December, 2022
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PDF XChange Editor
PDF XChange Editor
Page numbering
Click once on the “Organize” tab
Click on “Number Pages”
Choose a “Style,” “Prefix,” and “Start numbering from”
To change the range of numbered pages, double click the
yellow bar and adjust the beginning/ending position of the
range as needed
Bookmarks
(continued)
To delete a bookmark, right-click the bookmark, choose
Delete. Bookmarks may also be added/deleted using the
icons near the top of the Bookmark pane
Use the icons near the top of the Bookmark pane to
collapse/expand all bookmarks and other options
To create a bookmark without using existing text in the
document: a) left-click a point in the document where the
untitled bookmark will be created, right-click and choose
“Add Bookmark.” Type a name for the bookmark in the
Bookmark pane
OCR
OCR is “Optical Character Recognition,” a technology that
will recognize text characters inside digital images of
physical documents
To convert a scanned image to OCR, click the “Convert” tab,
click “OCR Page(s)”, choose required options, OK
Bookmarks
(Bookmarks panel)
A bookmark allows for navigation to a designated location
in the document
To display/hide the Bookmarks pane, go to the Home tab
and click the Bookmarks icon.
To navigate to a bookmark, click once on the bookmark
To expand/collapse a bookmark, click the chevron to the
left of the bookmark
To create a bookmark from document text, drag over the
document text, click “Add bookmark” on the Home tab. The
bookmark will appear in the Bookmark pane
To move a bookmark, drag the bookmark up or down in the
Bookmark pane.
Drag a bookmark a bit to the right and up to make it a
“child” under a bookmark, or drag a child bookmark a bit to
the left to make it a main level bookmark
To rename a bookmark, right-click the bookmark, choose
Rename, type the new name, press Enter
Hyperlinks and
Pinpoints
To display the Links Pane and all the existing links, choose
the View tab, Panes, Links
To create a hyperlink from existing text in a PDF, first copy
the destination URL that will be linked (e.g., legal citation),
then on the Home tab, click Select text, drag over the text
that will be used for the hyperlink, right-click the selected
text, choose Add link, choose Add web link, paste the URL,
OK
To create a pinpoint (ex. a specific paragraph number in a
CanLii URL), click the chevron to the right of the required
paragraph, choose Copy link, add link as above
To create a hyperlink in Word, choose Insert, Link, Insert
Link, Existing File or Web page or Place in this Document
based on an existing bookmark, fill in the address of the
file or Web page, change the display text if desired, OK
To return from a hyperlink, click ALT and the left-arrow
key
