Foxit PDF Editor for Windows

User Guide

  • Introduction
  • Get Started
  • Read
  • Create
  • Edit
  • Organize
  • Comment
  • Share PDFs
  • Forms
  • Security
  • Signature
  • Accessibility
    • Accessibility Check and Fixes
    • Accessible reading and navigation through accessibility preference setting and shortcut keys
    • Create accessible PDFs (Pro Only)
      • Tag PDF documents and form fields
      • Set alternate text for figures
      • Check reading order and edit tags with the Reading Order command
      • Change reading order
        • Change reading order in the Order panel
        • Set area reading order
      • Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
  • Foxit Admin Console
  • Print
  • Foxit AI Assistant (Available in Subscription Releases and Certain Regions)
  • Appendices

Change reading order in the Order panel

Click the icon in the navigation pane to open the Order panel where you can view the reading order. When you click a page in the Order panel, you will be switched to the corresponding page in the document view; when you select a tag in the Order panel, the corresponding content in the document view will be highlighted. In the Order panel, you can also change the reading order of a tagged PDF file without changing the actual appearance of the PDF file if the permission allows. To change the reading order, please do either of the following: 

  • Select the tag that you want to move and drag it to the desired location. The Line icon shows the place where the tag will be located as you drag the tag. 
  • Right-click the tag that you want to move and choose Cut from the context menu. Then right-click a destination tag after which you want to move to and choose Paste

After you drag a tag to a new location, the highlighted regions will be renumbered to show the new reading order. 

Tips: In the Order panel, you can use Ctrl-Click to select multiple tags as you click, or Shift-Click to select a listed group of tags between the first and the last tag you click. Then you can move them or right-click them to do more actions.