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Re: Accidentally deleted a list in my PDF document

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Nov 11, 2016 11:59AM

Just another example of why we love PDF so much.
How many hours of work does it add to publishing a document!?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:52 PM Metzessible < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> This is a common issue in Acrobat. I've seen other ways of dealing with
> this, but here's the method I used to solve it.
>
> First find the LI where it should be. If you don't know where it is, select
> some text around it in the PDF and choose "Find text from selection." This
> should give you the area it's in. Highlight the LBody tag where the content
> should be. Select the text in question. The LBody tag will change from a
> highlighted blue to a gray highlight. Right click the gray highlighted
> LBody tag and choose "Create tag from selection."
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Jon Metz
>
> On Friday, November 4, 2016, Karlen Communications <
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',' <EMAIL REMOVED> ');>> wrote:
>
> > Yes, if it is, you should be able to use find Tag from selection. If you
> > can't find the Text/Tag from selection, it shouldn't be tagged.
> >
> > Can you share the file? If so, send it to me off list.
> >
> > Cheers, Karen
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Nov 4, 2016, at 5:57 PM, Anne Godlewski < <EMAIL REMOVED>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > The list is tagged, if that's what you mean...?
> > >
> > >> On Nov 4, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Karlen Communications wrote:
> > >>
> > >> So you did delete the Tags so will have to retag it. What does it look
> > like on the Order Panel?
> > >>
> > >> Cheers, Karen
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Sent from my iPad
> > >>
> > >>> On Nov 4, 2016, at 5:37 PM, Anne Godlewski <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> It says the selection was not found (and yet I can see it in the
> > Content panel).
> > >>>
> > >>>> On Nov 4, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Karlen Communications wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Select one of the list items, go to the Tags Panel and just above
> the
> > Tags Tree there is an Options button. Click on that and choose Find Tag
> > from Selection. It should open the Tag where your list is buried.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Cheers, Karen's
> > >>>>
> > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
> > Behalf Of Anne Godlewski
> > >>>> Sent: November 4, 2016 4:31 PM
> > >>>> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> > >>>> Subject: [WebAIM] Accidentally deleted a list in my PDF document
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hello,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I'm using Acrobat X Pro on a Mac. I was reordering tags in the Tags
> > panel and accidentally dropped a list into a "banker's box" container of
> a
> > list item. Even though I didn't save the document, this change seemed to
> be
> > permanent because the list didn't appear in the tree structure when I
> > re-opened the document. The text of the list appears to be tagged when I
> > look at the Content panel, but I'm not able to create the tags from the
> > content if I'm in the Tags panel. Is there some way of getting the list
> and
> > its items to reappear in the Tags panel?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks,
> > >>>> Anne
> > >>>>
> > >>>> > > >>>> > > archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > >>>> > > >>>>
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