Adobe Acrobat DC: Users unable to highlight text in .pdf using various colors.

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May 17, 2018
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Several of our users are unable to highlight .pdf documents using Adobe Acrobat DC in various colors. They've given up and are now highlighting their documents by hand! Please help. Thanks.

Correct answer keith_6591

Click on the color dot and raise the opacity to 100% Worked for me, had to do it twice for ti to stay put though.

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keith_6591Correct answer

New Participant

Click on the color dot and raise the opacity to 100% Worked for me, had to do it twice for ti to stay put though.

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New Participant

HIGHLIGHTER is NOT a HIGHLIGHTER. Seriously? The most BASIC function is no longer available? I don't understand why I would pay for a product like this and suddenly NOT be able to select text and highlight it. I figured it was most certainly 'USER ERROR' [me]. Has anybody figured out how to do this WITHOUT installing some fix-it patch?

try67

Community Expert

Please explain what's the exact issue you're having, and what application (including version number) and OS versions you use.

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RadicalDad

New Participant

I've just run into this. Ridiculous! Acrobat DC version 2021.001.20155 on Windows 10. Highlighter doesn't work, period. Select the highlighter tool. Select text. Let go of the mouse button. Nothing happens. Not much to explain.

try67

Community Expert

I've developed a tool that I think will help you with this issue: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat/Reader -- Quickly Switch Between Highlighter Colors

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