Reveal the Markup toolbar by clicking the Markup button, and then click the Note button.

Add general notes: You can also place faux sticky notes anywhere on a PDF page.It shrinks when you click away from it and expands when you click it again.

Then enter your note in the colored box that appears. Control-click the highlighted text and choose Add Note. Add highlight notes: To ensure that your highlights make sense to others, add notes to them.Choose one from the Highlight menu in the toolbar and then select the desired text. Highlight text: They may give you flashbacks to high school, but Preview provides a handful of colored highlighters, along with underline and strikethrough styles.Although you can’t change the text with Preview, you can mark up the document. Let’s say someone asks for edits or comments on a PDF. Or, to take a photo or scan a document and insert it into the document, Control-click in the sidebar and choose Import from iPhone or iPad. You can also drag a PDF from the Finder into the sidebar to add all its pages. Open both PDFs, make sure their sidebars are showing page thumbnails, and then drag one or more thumbnails from one sidebar to the other, dropping them between the desired pages in the destination. What about putting pages from one PDF into another? Preview has your back there too. If you drag a thumbnail to the Finder, Preview exports the page as its own PDF file. Rearranging pages also happens in the sidebar-just drag the thumbnails as needed. Choose File > Save when you’re done-you’ll need to do that after all the rest of these tasks too. Then select the pages you want to remove and press Delete. First, make sure page thumbnails are showing in the sidebar by choosing View > Thumbnails. Have a PDF with unnecessary pages? You can delete them in Preview. Here are six tasks that people may think require Acrobat but can easily be accomplished in Preview. In contrast, Apple’s Preview is easy and free with macOS. Don’t misunderstand: Adobe Acrobat is the gold standard, but it’s complicated and expensive-$14.99 per month or as part of Creative Cloud for $52.99 per month. We regularly hear from people who think they need Adobe Acrobat DC to manipulate PDFs.

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