Acrobat X Pro highlight shortcuts (diff colors)

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January 30, 2011
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Changing colors in highlighted text is very time consuming in Acrobat X pro. You have to highlight the text, right click properties, choose the color, then determine whether to keep it as the default color.

Is there a keyboard shortcut that can be set-up to minimize the hassle. So I can just press (eg. Ctrl+Shift+B) for blue highlights or (eg. Ctrl+Shift+O) for orange?

Thanks!!

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Correct answer Anguel

I often wonder how inefficient and user unfriendly a leading and most expensive software can be. What are all those user-usability teams doing?

Dave__M

Community Expert

Not really what you're hoping for, but if you use your Properties Bar, you'll have the color options/properties for the highlighter (or other objects that are selected) right there without multiple clicks. Opening the Properties Bar is a quick Ctrl+E. Mine is open at all times.

My best,

Dave

try67

Community Expert

If you're interested I've developed a (paid-for) tool that allows you to quicky switch between highlighting colors, and while it's not possible to assign them direct keyboard shortcuts I could add them to the application's menu and assign keyboard accelerators to them, so they can be accessed with a combination of keys.

You can find it here: https://www.try67.com/tool/acrobat-reader-quickly-switch-between-highlighter-colors