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Hi this video is to show you how to redact within an Adobe PDF document redaction is used for hiding sensitive information if you want to hide somebody's first and last name a birthdate so security number things like that this is the video that will show you how to do so so the first thing you want to do is open up your document now redaction works not only on words but it also works on pictures and we'll do we'll do some redaction with mr. smiley down here so the first thing we want to do is go to advanced and that's in the toolbar at the top I'm gonna go to advanced and we're gonna go to redaction down here at this drop down and then this drop down is going to extend out to another sub drop-down and you can use these with in the toolbar however I'd like to actually see the entire toolbar itself just so that I have all the options available and I don't have to keep going up to the top of the window here so the that's that's pick a word that we want to redact so let's say Reader for some reason we don't want outside parties to see this so what we're gonna do is we're gonna market for redaction or actually let me rephrase you're gonna click mark for to action and then highlight the word that you'd like to redact and once you've highlighted if you rollover it's going to show exactly what it's going to look like okay so no redaction actually takes place until you click apply so once you've chosen it and you kind of like the way that looks and say you know I want to I want to redact this as well I've got a couple things here I'm gonna apply these redactions and it's going to say are you sure this is permanent and of course very serious I'll press okay and I'm gonna say yes and yes yes to that window is basically saying you want to remove more data you can remove the metadata within it and delete hidden page and image content this is kind of just a special preference if you choose to do this I'm going to say yes just because I'm very secretive about mr. smiley I'm gonna say remove all checked items so here it's gonna tell you exactly what's been removed it'll click okay so that's how you were interact now I know a lot of people they have 500 page documents that need they need to do some redaction within so another thing you can do is you can click search and redact and this is just giving you a little warning sign making sure and here it's gonna ask what word or phrase would you like to search for I'm gonna put software ok and in the current PDF now you can do it within all PDF documents and