Prompt tips to edit and create with AI Assistant

Explore how to use prompts to assist with editing and revising a document, as well as creating new content.

Published December 22, 2025

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Introduction

When you're gathering information from your documents using Acrobat AI Assistant, it's really important to know what questions to ask.

But it might be more important to know how to ask them.

I'm going to help you level up your prompt skills and learn how to edit documents, as well as create new content.

Let's start with the prompt category of edit.

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Using the Edit prompt category to simplify, rephrase, condense, and convert content

I'll click the AI Assistant button in the upper-right and get started editing the content.

First, we are going to simplify and what we can do is we can ask AI Assistant, simplify this section on the company's best practices into a numbered list.

We also can rephrase by asking, rephrase the presentation's introduction to make it sound friendlier and with a more professional tone.

We also can condense by saying, reduce the social media 101 breakout notes from five pages to just one.

And lastly, let's convert the social media 101 conclusion from a summary to a call to action.

And just like that, we have edited our document with new content and new ways of seeing the information that may be easier to digest for our audience.

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Using the Create prompt category to generate tips, emails, messages, and outlines

Now let's check out another prompt category, Create.

And this category can include outputs such as sales tips, email highlights, Slack messages, and outlines to content.

I'm going to upload five documents by dragging them into this box.

Once all five of those documents are processed, we can see that they're all uploaded and ready to chat.

Now let's use AI Assistant with the prompt category Create.

We could ask it to gather Sales tips - from all documents, and generate a tip sheet for our sales team to use.

And here we have a nice tip sheet for our sales team to use.

We also can do email highlights.

Let's reduce the effort of sifting through all of my uploaded documents by asking AI Assistant to just write an email in a professional tone that highlights the five main takeaways from all of the documents.

And there we have it.

A nice email that I can copy and paste and send out to my team.

Now I also can create a Slack message.

I think a lot of people have trouble hopping from email to message and keeping that seamless.

So what I'm going to do is ask AI Assistant to draft a slack message summarizing the main topics from the event for my team in a friendly and professional tone that has less than 100 words.

Five documents from the entire weekend summed up in less than 100 words using AI Assistant.

Lastly, we can outline to content.

If you're creating an email presentation, memo, whatever it may be, this prompt can really help you navigate your train of thought.

For example, we can ask write an outline on the information from all documents with 10 major points and 2 supporting ideas for each major point.

This makes it really easy to apply my content into an email and digest an outline for my team.

And those are just a few examples of how you can use the prompt category of Create.

For a prompt

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How to craft effective prompts for AI Assistant

that will generate the most informative and useful responses clearly define your goals, provide relevant context, use clear and concise language, employ examples, outline steps, and build on prior interactions.

In these examples, we've explored the prompt categories of Edit and Create.

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Expanding beyond Edit and Create with Ask, Analyze, and Brainstorm

But consider how AI Assistant might help you if you framed your prompts as Ask, Analyze and Brainstorm.

There's so much that you can do with AI Assistant, and a good prompt is the start of it all.

By designating keywords, tone, word count, or even designating the audience that you'll be speaking to, it's the best way for you to hone your results and generate relevant content using AI Assistant.

Note: Assets provided are for practice purposes only.

What you'll learn

Edit documents and create new content

AI Assistant can be used to help you edit a document in a variety of ways, including offering suggestions to simplify, rephrase, condense, or revise content. You can also use it to create entirely new content based on the information in a document, such as email highlights, content outlines, next steps, and social media or blog posts.

Instruction by: Andrew Hochradel

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