highlighting

[MsKayle]

How do I search and highlight a symbol throughout an adobe dc document. I am a cross stitcher. My patterns are in PDF format and each page is a graph full of various symbols. I want to be able to highlight a symbol throughout a document and then unhighlight it or highlight the next symbol in a different color. Can someone help me with how to do this if it is possible, please?

MsKayle

[mytaxsite]

Have you tried going to:

Edit >> Find (or just use CTRL+F)

This gives you the option to click next button and it finds all of them

one by one.

Acrobat forum is here:

<https://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/content>

Or reader forum is here:

<https://forums.adobe.com/community/adobe_reader_forums/content>

Good luck.

[MsKayle]

Thank you for the links mytaxsite. However, I do know how to do a find and then do the next and next. I need to find and highlight all instances of the symbol.

[try67]

If you have Acrobat Pro then it can be done using an Action. Otherwise you can do it using a script, like this one I've developed: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Highlight All Instances of a Word or Phrase in a PDF

[MsKayle]

I will check that out try67. Hopefully I can figure out how to use it. Thank you

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

Hi.

Check out these free Actions for Acrobat :

- https://acrobatusers.com/actions-exchange/find-highlight-and-extract

- https://acrobatusers.com/actions-exchange/find-and-highlight-words

[MsKayle]

Thank you JR_Boulay, I will check out those links