That makes sense!! Is there a work around for making colored highlights comments? I feel like I might need a different program other than acrobat. Our files range up to 4000 pages. Manually redacting take a bunch of people and a lot of time.
Like I said, if you added the highlights in Acrobat instead of in Word you could automate the redaction process. It's just a question of moving where you add them to a different application. If you're redacting specific terms (or even patterns) that can be automated in Acrobat as well, without the need to actually add highlights first. You can use the Search & Remove Text tool for that.