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Any way to display only comments (not highlighting) upon opening?

New Here ,
Feb 08, 2021 Feb 08, 2021

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Seems crazy that there's no functionality for this, but there appears not to be.

 

I want to mark up a document, highlighting text and making comments here and there. I highlight a lot, which helps me steer my eyes to particular bits of the text when I'm teaching it. Sometimes I leave comments for myself. I'd like to see those comments, and only those comments, without being notified that there is also a "highlighted text" on the comment list. Can we just turn off "formatting" changes? MS Word allows this: comments are only text-based comments to oneself. Highlighting doesn't display as a comment.

The problem is that the way that Adobe currently works it, all of my comments get lost in a sea of "highlighted text" notifications, which basically makes all of the functionality useless to me.

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Adobe Employee ,
Feb 09, 2021 Feb 09, 2021

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Hi Benjamin,

 

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble. As described, you only wants to see the comments/sticky notes in the comments pane and not the highlighted text.

 

Once you do all the highlighting and adding the comment/sticky note in a PDF just click on the filter icon present in the top right of the comment pane as shown below and deselect the highlight under 'types' and click 'Apply', it will then show you only the sticky notes in the PDF file.

 

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For more information please check the help page: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/comments.html#view_comments

 

Regards

Amal

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New Here ,
Apr 05, 2022 Apr 05, 2022

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Hi Amal, 

Does this mean that there is no way to filter between "highlighted text" notifications and the highlighted text that I comment on? Will I have to instead make a sticky note every time I want to annotate something? If this is the case, is there a way that I can filter out highlights from only the comments section without it removing the highlights from the actual document as well?

Because I agree with Benjamin - when I open the Comments tab, I'd like to see what I have actually commented, not a list of sometimes 150+ "highlighted text" or "underlined text" markups! 

 

Thank you

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 06, 2022 Apr 06, 2022

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Hi there,

 

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble.

 

Please submit the feature request to the engineering team using the link https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

 

Regards

Amal

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New Here ,
Mar 24, 2023 Mar 24, 2023

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This is lame. This feature should have been included long ago. 

A doc can have dozens of highlights, with only a small number of those with actual text comments.  There is an obvious need to see all the highlights on the doc, and show only the text comments on the sidebar.  Why is this made difficult for the user ???

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