did you know you could use Microsoft Edge as a
PDF editor that's what I want to show you today on teachers Tech
hi I'm Jamie and it's great to have you here so I have this PDF on my desktop and I'm going
to go ahead and open it with Microsoft Edge now that's not my default PDF editor right
now but you could change it if you wanted to make that your editor I'm going to right
click and go open with and we're going to go to Microsoft Edge as soon as I open this up I
get all these different tools across the top and there's going to be a few more even if I
right click on it I have all these options now I just want to start with I'm going to
zoom up a little bit I can go to actually fit with here and I'm going to show you this
option so if you want this read aloud if I go ahead and click this Microsoft Word tutorial
here is the best Microsoft so I'm going to go ahead and stop that it will start reading it
from the top so if I go uh to voice options if I don't want this voice I can drop down I can
speed it up and I can choose a voice so you can customize it that way I'm going to close out of
this I do want to show you if all of a sudden if you're not if you don't want to have it read
from the beginning what you can do if I go ahead and just highlight this and click in here take a
look at this so I can go ahead and have this read aloud from here so now if I go click it again to
unpin the item at any time so you don't have to start at the beginning okay so I'm going to close
out of the voice options and I want to show you a few other things I can add text very quickly
so if I click on this I can click and I can start typing away so type what you want we can change
our color to these ones we can increase the size we can move this in different ways so very easy to
add more to text if you find something is missing you can see we can delete it we can also use the
pen tool so if I select that drop down and you can see where you can choose your colors choose
how thick you want and then you can go through and start marking up this way to pull out all
the important information for you through here but not only a pen we do have a highlighter that you
can go through and do the exact same thing we can change our colors and thickness on this as well so
very easily start to mark this up anything you want gone just use the Eraser and scratch that
out and you can see how quickly things disappear so it doesn't work on the text just on the on the
pen and the highlighter here's a few more cool features this can do so if I was going to go
ahead and highlight a word and I get these options right through here you can see I can copy search
Define and I can do the highlighting from here I can add a comment also so I could put a comment
to these you can see have a few more options to edit or delete it afterwards but I could just
hit the check mark and then I have it so I could go back click on this I could add more comments
after so it's a nice way to add if you're working someone's sharing with you a PDF you can open it
up here and quickly add those comments now I can use this also to look upwards so if I was going to
go through here I could Define it's going to just give me a definition of this or I could actually
look up use the web if I go ahead and do a search for this again so I'm just going to highlight this
make sure I get exactly what I want I'll just highlight and then if I do a search it will go
on the web and look for it so if you need options there the other thing what I like that it can do
is that you can do a screenshot from this so if I go ahead and I'm just going to right click and
I'm going to do a web capture and just choose that and let's say if there was an image in here that I
wanted maybe it's all marked up I could go ahead select it and I could mark up the capture visual
search from here but let's say I'm going to go to markup I could go here and then I could draw
over it and at this option here I can share it out I can save this separately from the PDF so
another good option that you can quickly use inside Microsoft Edge as a PDF editor so I'm
going to go ahead and just close this I'm not worrying about saving this but if you do want to
save everything we have our save options right here where you can go the save as and then all
your markups all your notes and comments will be saved when you save it to your computer if you
don't want to save it just go ahead and print it and it will have all the markups and notes
that you've put on it as well all right so I hope you like this little walk through quick
walkthrough of how to use Microsoft Edge as a PDF editor a lot of people have overlooked this
featured it but it's a great one if you don't want to go ahead ahead and purchase anything
and you just want to make those quick markups on a PDF let me know what you think of this thanks
for watching this time on teachers Tech I'll see you next time with more Tech tips and tutorials