Drawing a rectangle

[law clerk]

When I want to draw several rectangles in a row, I seem to have to click/choose the rectangle every time I want to use it. How can I choose it and use it several times in a row?

Discussion moved from Illustrator forum to Acrobat.

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

You can pin the tool. 

[Ton Frederiks]

That is not normal behaviour, once the rectangle tool is selected you can draw as many as you like.

Did you try to restart your computer?

[law clerk]

I have done several things and nothing works. I have never been able to do it. It has always made me choose it over and over.

[Ton Frederiks]

Try resetting your Preferences.

[pixxxelschubser]

The behaviour is still the same after restarting the computer? Can you please post a screenshot (small video)?

[GrangerMorton]

are all your rectangles the same??

[law clerk]

No, they aren't. Does that make a difference? I mean the program doesn't know that I'm going to make different sizes when I make the choice to make one. Here is a sample of the document I use this on the most. See how the rectangle could be different every time? I type my notes on the document then I go back and put the box around them.

[Ton Frederiks]

And you do the redaction in Illustrator? So you need to draw the black rectangles and delete the text below it?

I cannot replicate your problem, could you make a screen recording of your workflow?

As an aside, did you know that Acrobat has very good redaction tools that automatically remove the underlying text?

[law clerk]

I did do the redacting in Acrobat but redacting isn't the problem. 

[GrangerMorton]

I see, (sorry I thought "in a row" you meant "in a line"). That is odd as my tool stays on rectangle until I click something else.
As a workaround, (not ideal, I understand) you could use the "M" key which activates the rectangle?
I would also draw one rectangle, "alt+click" to duplicate to it's next position (if you want them all the same height) and then alter the width to taste .... 

[GrangerMorton]

as a matter of interest, does say the knife tool stay activated, or does that behave the same??

[law clerk]

The only tool that stays after selection is the line tool and the highlighting tool. I just tried most of the tools and they all seem to work once besides those two.

[Ton Frederiks]

Are you sure you are talking about Illustrator? Where do you see the highlighting tool?

[law clerk]

No, I'm not talking about Illustrator. I'm talking about Acrobat Pro

[Ton Frederiks]

I think it is better to continue this discussion in the Acrobat forum since this is not an Illustrator problem.

[law clerk]

I apologize, I have no idea how I got into the wrong forum.

[Ton Frederiks]

Discussion moved from Illustrator to Acrobat.

[law clerk]

Did you move this or do I need to post it?

[Nesa Nurani · Accepted solution]

It's moved to Acrobat forum.

There is a little pin on a same toolbar where you select circle tool, click it to keep tool selected

[law clerk]

Thank you, everyone.

[Bernd Alheit · Accepted solution]

You can pin the tool. 

[Ton Frederiks]

@law clerk  Did the answers from Nesa and Bernd help you? If so, please mark them as the correct answer, it can help others in the future.