Work Smarter with PDFelement User Guide
PDFelement 11 User Guide
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Get Started with PDFelement
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Open PDF
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View PDF
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Create PDF Files
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Annotate PDF Files
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Edit PDF Files
- Import as Layers
- How to Add Vertical Text?
- How to Create Outlines for Text in a PDF on Windows
- Add Page Number to PDF
- Edit PDF Text
- Spelling Check in PDF
- Edit Images
- Edit Hyperlink
- Add Watermark to PDF
- Change Background in PDF
- Add Header or Footer
- Bates Number
- Flatten PDF
- Add Audios or Videos to PDF
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Combine PDF Files
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Organize PDF Files
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PDF OCR
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Convert PDF Files
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Fill PDF Form
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Protect & Sign PDF
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Print PDF Files
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Share PDF Files
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PDF AI Tools
- Summarize Multiple PDFs
- PDF Grammar Checker
- Knowledge Cards
- Customize AI Assistant
- Customize AI Prompt
- How to Use Intelligent Image Editing?
- Explain Content & Code
- How to Summarize a PDF to a Mind Map on Windows
- PDF to Markdown
- Proofread PDF
- Rewrite PDF
- Summarize PDF
- How to Get Side-by-Side Translation?
- How to Batch Translate PDFs?
- How to Generate Images With AI
- Chat with PDF
- How to Chat with Multiple PDFs
- Translate PDF
- How to Read Aloud PDF
- AI Content Detector
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How to Open PDF from File Menu
If you have already opened one PDF in PDFelement, you will see the “File” menu on the top left. Here we present how to open pdf file from the “File” menu.
- Tap “File” button and then “Open” or “Open Recent” option to select the PDF files from File Explorer.

Open Recent
- Click on “File > Open Cloud”, you will see many cloud options including Dropbox, Google Drive, Wondershare Cloud, OneDrive, Box and Library. You may need to sing in your cloud account and complete access authorization, then you can open PDF files from “Open Cloud”.

Open Cloud

Open from Google Drive