Turn highlighting OFF after turning it on

[micmb]

I can't believe I can't figure this out, maybe the option doesn't exist. I turned on highlight for a few texts that I wanted highlighted in a PDF file. Great, but now I want to turn it off ( deselect it) so that I can select text in the same PDF file for copy/paste into another. But no joy. The highlight option remains selected and so everything I select gets highlighted. I don't want this. Yes I know I can delete the highlight, but why would I work like that? Highlight something because I've selected it, and then delete the highlight because I don't want it. When you turn something ON, there should be a way to turn it OFF. 

[micmb]

Btw, I did ask two different Adobe support persons on the chat and clearly they didn't know either 

[DeanUtian]

Hi micmb
Are you asking if you can hide highlighting and then unhide? So rather than deleting it, you just have an option to not show highlighting? If so, Acrobat does not have that functionality at this time.

If you want to deactivate the highlighting so that after you've highlighted one bit of text, Acrobat won't highlight other text that you then select, then you'd  simply click the highligh icon to make it inactive and when you select other text, that text won't highlight.

[JR Boulay]

You should use this option, so that the highlighted text is available in the pop-up comment.