How do i neatly highlight text in Acrobat?

Well, the selection tool is *not* intuitive or working "right out of the box" - I am using the latest version of DC and my highlighting tool seems to be selecting a random block of text - and, by appearances, defaulting to a huge cursor (font size) setting. Once selected, I can't adjust the selection window to frame only the desired text. Wish it worked like it used to...simple, intuitive. Searched all Preferences and Settings - thought maybe it had to do with page or view scale. Can anyone help that does *not* work for Adobe? Thank you. attaching screen shots...

I am having the same issue of having lost the ability to select and highlight text in straight lines in Acrobat Reader (on a Mac). I now have only the circle cursor that will only do free-form highlighting.  This switch happened literally in the middle of editing a document. I can't figure out how to get back the straight-line cursor that provides neat highlighting--the highlighter tool doesn't give options as it did before. I tried restarting Acrobat but it didn't make a difference.

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC

Issue: If the highlighter is going over multiple text and you want it just to highlight the one line this is what I did to resolve the issue.

Note:

Just as a heads up the PDF that i was testing this on already had Text recognition enabled so i advise run the Enhance scan first before performing steps 1, 2, or 3

Steps

     To do this go to Tools > Enhance Scan > Recognize Text > In this file > Recognize Text

Answer's

1. On some documents Text Recognition fixed the issue but this was not true for all of the documents i tested on.
2. Save the file as a word document. Then open the word document. Save the file again as a PDF. Now you should be able to highlight just one line of text.
3. Alternative answer once the document is in word you can highlight the text before converting it back over to PDF.

I feel that many of the complaints regarding the highlighter tool could be resolved if Adobe was too add a “Highlight” blend mode to the drawings tools. That way, we could simply draw rectangles or

polygons around the tea that we want to highlight and check the “Highlight” button, and the shape would then act as a highlighter. If you’d like this feature, please vote for it here on he Acrobat User Voice page: Use the Drawing Tools to highlight objects – Share your feedback on Acrobat DC

What nonsense!

Everyone wants to highlight text the way Acrobat always has for 11 or so releases

and the way all other software does.

What IDIOT made this disastrous change?

I also agree.  I hate the ball highlighter.  It only straightens out if you are trying to highlight a couple of words.  I have to highlight in legal documents and there is no clear way to get it to change to the I shaped icon.  I get it to work by luck sometimes.  For now I have to export the file to Word, which always has errors or print and highlight manually with an actual marker.  Help!

Devon

I am using Pro DC and have the same issue.  I have a document that was downloaded from the internet and I can't highlight the text.  The marker is not even highlighted for use.  How can I use the highlighter in this case.  I can't revert back since this is a company computer and they have a Standard Desktop that everyone has to use.

I have to agree.  I have no idea what you guys have done or why, but I was able to highlight text in my document neatly and accurately. Now, i get the majority of the document highlighted - the text is apparently irrelevant.  Back to a REAL highlighter. Whatever you have done, recognises text in a different manner - or rather doesn't recognise text correctly. And what is with the rounded edges?

Is there a setting to restore box highlighting?  The ball tool is very messy.