Hilighting objects in Acrobat Pro

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February 16, 2025
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I have Adobe Acrobat Pro and I'm not sure why I am unable to highlight objects? Only text.

Reading instructions from a google seearch, it instructs to go to the comments tab, (which I don't have). I only have a comments tools and it doesn't have highlight capabilites. When I select the highlighter, it only highlights text. Trying to mark up a file for someone and I need this capability. Any advice?

Thank You.

try67

Community Expert

The Highlighter tool only works on text. Use one of the other commenting tools, like Square, to free draw a box on the page. It's not a highlight, but it's similar.

phil_1Author

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I don't have shape tools in my comment tool options. And I know I've seen the highlighter used on non text items in instructional vids. But my UI is different from others I've seen??

try67

Community Expert

Post a screenshot of what you're seeing, then.

kglad

Community Expert

in the future, to find the best place to post your message, use the list here, https://community.adobe.com/

p.s. i don't think the adobe website, and forums in particular, are easy to navigate, so don't spend a lot of time searching that forum list. do your best and we'll move the post (like this one has already been moved) if it helps you get responses.

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