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Issue with irritating highlighting boxes.

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
June 10, 2025
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Greetings all,

I will preface this with the satatement that I do not find Adobe to be most intuiutive or user friendly program and as such likely am missing something simple.

Basically the problem is that every time I highlight text, if I click the highlighted text to either highlight more or less, or any reason at all; an irritating blue outlined box surrounds EVERYTHING on that line, and it also makes it so I cannot use my cursor within that box.

How do I make it so Adobe stops sticking a......irritating box around everything?

This is text I manually highlighted.

This is immediately what happens when I click anywhere in the highlighted text.

No matter what I do I cannot click to get my cursor to function inside that blue box. I DEARLY wish to never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever see this box again.

Regards,

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try67

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A highlight is a comment. When you select a comment there's an indicator that shows you that selection through a box around it. There's no way around it. If what you're trying to do is copy the text you've highlighted you will need to be a bit creative. You can start the selection a bit before the text and drag the mouse over it, or you could copy the text from the comment's contents (if you enabled the option to copy the selected text into it), or you could flatten the file, converting the highlight from a comment to static page contents, and then you'll be able to select the text normally.

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Ok, so I know you think that made sense but you need to remember that I avoid using Adobe unless I ABSOLUTELY must due to it being so utterly user unfriendly, because it didn't make sense and Adobe keeps adding in changes which are unintuitive, unhelpful, unwanted, and unexplained.

Firstly, I am not having anything to do with a comment; I am highlighting pre-existing text on the document.

Second, I am indeed trying to copy text, but I am trying to copy PART of the highlighted text. Basically I am going through data in which the relevant information I will use is highlighted, but I will use different bits in different spots, some of which is quite precise and manually keying would leave it prone to error. So I want to be able to click and drag my cursor across the data that I specifically want at that moment to then copy and paste, just like you can with every other program.

Third, I don't want to be copying additional data by starting early and then having to back track delete characters. This adds additional time and the probability of errors considering the volume of data I sort through.

Fourth, I only want to copy parts of the highlighted data at a time, not the whole thing. And why on earth would it need to be even a thought that I would have to enable the optino to copy? Either Ctrl+C or right click and copy, like every other program.

Fifth, I legitimately have no idea what you mean by flatten.

Six, I don't know what you mean by a static page.

Seventh, why would I need to convert anything to copy and paste normally? That's just adding an exorbitant length of time and process for should be 'click' 'drag' 'copy' 'paste'.

I just want the box to go away so I can access my data, like I have always been able to do before. There must be a way to turn off this truly and egregiously unhelpful dis-function.

Why is it so difficult to perform a function that we have been doing on hundreds of programs over decades?

It is like I said at the beginning, Adobe is so immensely un user friendly. It's worse than Mac.

try67

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Simplest solution for you is this:

Open the Comments panel. Click the Filter Icon. Enable "Hide all comments".

Copy the texts you want to copy.

Go back to the same spot and disable hiding the comments.

Done.

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