Copy highlighted text

[yhdg7te65656]

Hello,

The text selection tool does not seem to work with highlighted text.  This has been the case for many versions of Acrobat, which is why I don’t think it is a bug, but simply bad design. 

When I move the text selection tool to some highlighted text, the tool changes into a highlight editing tool which cannot select the text under the highlight.

I tried using Shift + select, and that works as intended - it selects all text from the current position of the cursor, which is usually somewhere else in the document.  The problem with that is that I don’t see a way to actually move the cursor to the beginning of the highlighted text in order to select only what I need. 

What is the best way to select highlighted text?

Thank you.

[maxwyss]

I have not tested it, but it should work if you can start the selection outside of the highlighted text.

[yhdg7te65656]

That doesn't help when I want to select a word or sentence when the entire paragraph is highlighted. 

Plus, one shouldn't have to select more text than needed for the purposes of copying.

[Bernd Alheit]

Press the shift key and mouse click on the begin and the end.

[yhdg7te65656]

Bernd Alheit wrote:

Press the shift key and mouse click on the begin and the end.

I assume that since you're suggesting this, you must have tried it, successfully.

Not only that doesn't work for me, but it doesn't make much sense, because Shift + left click selects text from wherever the cursor is already placed in the document.  If you do the Shift+left click a second time, it just selects more text.

I don't know of a way to mark the beginning of the selection within highlighted text, only using the mouse.  Shift + left click definitely doesn't achieve that.

Any tested and working suggestions would be greatly appreciated here.

Thanks.

[Bernd Alheit]

What want you select? Where did you place the mouse when you shift + left click?