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How to erase all annotations on Microsoft Edge PDF viewer in one click ?

Anonymous
2023-06-09T10:55:48+00:00

I use Microsoft Edge browser pdf viewer because of the annotation features. however, after editing and writing a lot of things on the pdf I would like to have a button to erase all annotations (pen marks, text boxes, highlights) it is such a simple feature I hope it is me who is missing it. in the gear icon on the top rigth there is an option to hide all annotations but not erase them. doing it manually with the erasing tool takes too much time. please help thank you very much in advance

Microsoft Edge | Read PDFs | Windows 11

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-10T20:17:30+00:00

    Dear Loayanbar,I think I misunderstood your question;

    You want to undo all changes made to the PDF, correct?

    However, this feature is not yet present in Edge's PDF viewer;

    For now the only way is to delete the changes manually;

    See you soon!

    Yes, that is what I meant. Thank you so much for your reply. That is sad. Can you please tell me how we can report this? We should send a ticket to Microsoft to improve this. It is such a simple yet must-have feature.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-06-24T15:39:30+00:00

    If you clear the browsing data, it doesn't delete the annotations.

    Just right click on the open PDF in Edge, then click "Refresh"- this will "restart" the document and erase it's temporary memory - incl the annotations.

    Sure restarting the pdf works but it only works if you haven't saved the pdf with the annotations
    I want a way to delete all the annotations after they've been saved ( sometimes I save them by accident.) and then when I want to use the pdf again I have to erase all the annotations one by one.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-06-18T12:10:22+00:00

    Unfortunately, there isn't. I would appreciate it if you could also send a ticket about this problem to Microsoft! let's help make the world a better place.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-06-17T17:46:31+00:00

    There ought to be a similar feature on Edge pdf management as to the PowerPoint option to "clear all ink".

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-09T12:44:05+00:00

    Dear Loayanbar,I think I misunderstood your question;

    You want to undo all changes made to the PDF, correct?

    However, this feature is not yet present in Edge's PDF viewer;

    For now the only way is to delete the changes manually;

    See you soon!

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