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MsKayle
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May 16, 2016
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highlighting

  • May 16, 2016
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How do I search and highlight a symbol throughout an adobe dc document. I am a cross stitcher. My patterns are in PDF format and each page is a graph full of various symbols. I want to be able to highlight a symbol throughout a document and then unhighlight it or highlight the next symbol in a different color. Can someone help me with how to do this if it is possible, please?

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JR Boulay
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JR BoulayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
May 16, 2016

Hi.

Check out these free Actions for Acrobat :

- https://acrobatusers.com/actions-exchange/find-highlight-and-extract

- https://acrobatusers.com/actions-exchange/find-and-highlight-words

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    MsKayleAuthor
    Participant
    May 16, 2016

    Thank you JR_Boulay, I will check out those links

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community Expert
    Community Expert
    May 16, 2016

    If you have Acrobat Pro then it can be done using an Action. Otherwise you can do it using a script, like this one I've developed: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Highlight All Instances of a Word or Phrase in a PDF

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      MsKayleAuthor
      Participant
      May 16, 2016

      I will check that out try67. Hopefully I can figure out how to use it. Thank you

      mytaxsite
      mytaxsite
      Inspiring
      May 16, 2016

      Have you tried going to:

      Edit >> Find (or just use CTRL+F)

      This gives you the option to click next button and it finds all of them

      one by one.

      Acrobat forum is here:

      <https://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/content>

      Or reader forum is here:

      <https://forums.adobe.com/community/adobe_reader_forums/content>

      Good luck.

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        MsKayleAuthor
        Participant
        May 16, 2016

        Thank you for the links mytaxsite. However, I do know how to do a find and then do the next and next. I need to find and highlight all instances of the symbol.

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