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Vibrant_Coconut5EF5
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February 8, 2021
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Any way to display only comments (not highlighting) upon opening?

  • February 8, 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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    annamessiha
    New Participant
    October 11, 2024

    Hey guys, 

    I just filled up the improvement form, to request that this feature be included in Adobe's next update. 

    Please upvote the idea so that there are more odds that this improvement will be considered. 

    Thanks 🙂

     

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      annamessiha
      New Participant
      October 11, 2024

      New title

      Filtering Annotations: "Highlight with comment"

      Amal.
      Community Manager
      Amal.Community Manager
      Community Manager
      February 9, 2021

      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.

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

       

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

       

      Regards

      Amal

        808daddy
        808daddy
        New Participant
        December 28, 2023

        While the filter removes the "highlighted text" notation from the comments, it also removes the actual highlights from the PDF as well.  This is NOT what we're looking for.   We simply want to remove the '"highlighted texts" from the comments, not the highlight itself.   Why does Adobe believe it's perfectly fine to add its own comments to mine?      

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          Nicholas35793974qojl
          New Participant
          March 1, 2024

          Hi guys, did anyone find a fix on the above issue? As already noted, we want to be able to highlight text for emphasis without automatically opening a comment box. We want to have the option to comment on any text, including our highlights, where we deem necessary and to have Acrobat automatically open a Highlight Tex Comment. We then have to go through so may comments to find the ones that have actual text in them which is irritating. 

           

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