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Can't change color or delete new highlights (seams to be highlight preferences-related)

Community Beginner ,
Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023

I'm struggling to edit new highlights on a PDF document. The highlight color and other options are grayed out and I cant even delete them. The color option button isn't even appearing in the highlight pop-up.

 

Screenshot 2023-03-09 at 08.54.30.png Screenshot 2023-03-09 at 08.54.48.png

 

Meanwhile, comments I have made yesterday are still working fine.

 

Screenshot 2023-03-09 at 08.56.20.png

I remember that yesterday I had changed this highlight preferences, specificly this Make propreties default, wich seams to have been the mistake, but I cant seam to change the settings back. You can see that the checkbox is not even checked anymore.  

 

Screenshot 2023-03-09 at 08.56.45.png  Screenshot 2023-03-09 at 08.57.03.png

 

I've tried to uninstall and reinstall acrobat, and also to reset the settings to default (https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-reset-acrobat-preference-settings-to-defau...), but nothing worked.

 

Any help is apreciated.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023
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Apparently, the issue was the Locked checkbox in the Highlight Preferences dialog box. I've managed to escape my own locking by changing the color of a previously created highlight, than I got back the option to chose the color (and delete) new highlights).

 

Nevertheless, I have no idea how to solve this if this had happen in a file with no previous highlights.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 09, 2023 Mar 09, 2023
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Apparently, the issue was the Locked checkbox in the Highlight Preferences dialog box. I've managed to escape my own locking by changing the color of a previously created highlight, than I got back the option to chose the color (and delete) new highlights).

 

Nevertheless, I have no idea how to solve this if this had happen in a file with no previous highlights.

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