Place your new signature where you want it on the document and left-click.
Look to see if there is a small “Ab” next to your cursor.If the file is not there, go to the left-hand menu and click on My Computer to find the PDF file you want to sign, and double-click it to move it into Acrobat’s editing window.Click on “Fill & Sign” and then on “Select a File” to choose a PDF file to work on. Select that, and your document will open within the Fill & Sign feature. On the right, there should now be a column with a thumbnail of the document, along with several functions, one of which will be Fill & Sign. If the file you want to use is among them, highlight the file. There will be a list of any PDFs you may have recently opened. Once it’s installed, Acrobat Reader will open. It’s a good idea to uncheck Adobe’s promotional offers before downloading Acrobat Reader.
You can sign a PDF in Edge, but you can’t save your signature. Use your cursor (or, if you’ve got a touch screen, your finger) to sign the PDF, and then save the document.If you’ve got a touch screen, it will automatically enable the Draw with Touch option (the icon looks like a hand).Click on the Draw icon (it looks like a pencil facing downward). The file will open in Edge’s PDF reader.Right-click on the file and open it using Microsoft Edge. Find your PDF file in the file manager.
In this article, I’ll first go over how to use Edge to add a signature, and then I’ll do the same using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, which is Adobe’s free PDF reader. There are also third-party apps you can download that will give you the same ability. However, you can use Windows’ built-in browser, Microsoft Edge, to sign a PDF document.
Windows doesn’t offer a built-in PDF signing feature the way a Mac does. You can do it the long way - print those documents out, sign them, and then scan them back into your computer - or you can create a digital signature and place it directly on the PDF. However, even digital documents have to be signed.
(PDF stands for Portable Document Format it is a standard created by Adobe in the early 1990s that allows paper documents to be turned into exact digital copies.) In fact, hard copy paperwork is fast becoming the exception rather than the rule. These days, more and more official papers are being turned into PDF documents.