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Snowdog63
Inspiring
June 21, 2025
Question

Highlight tool bin icon

  • June 21, 2025
  • 2 replies
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I'm not quite sure what to call it, but I'm using the highlight tool for the first time & every time I highlight the text, a little palette appears with a colours selection thing & a bin, just below where I've highlighted & covers up the next thing I want to highlight! A total pain.

 

I mean, I get why it might be useful to have this nearby, but can I move it, the way I can move (or switch off) the coordinates box in Photoshop?

 

If not, that needs to be added in.

2 replies

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2025

Go to Menu - Preferences - General, and tick off "Show quick actions on text selection".

Snowdog63
Snowdog63Author
Inspiring
June 22, 2025

That's really good to know, thanks. I'm actually looking at these PDFs in a browser, so I have the tools but not the preferences, as far as I can see, but I can easily save the PDFs in future.

Eric Dumas
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 21, 2025

HI, that is a great observation. Can you log a request for the next update at https://acrobat.uservoice.com 

Snowdog63
Snowdog63Author
Inspiring
June 21, 2025

Thanks. That's done.