What is the shortcut command for highlighting text?

[scottf67536726]

Is there a shortcut command for highlighting text (as opposed to right-click, highlight)?

[AkanchhaS · Accepted solution]

Hi Scottf67536726,

To enable single-key shortcuts, open the Preferences dialog box (Edit > Preferences), and under General, select the Use Single-Key Accelerators To Access Tools option.

After making changes in preferences you can use Shift+U key for highlighting.

For more information please refer to the help document- Keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Acrobat DC

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Akanchha

[thefakeoyen]

This doesn't work

[Urhixidur]

"After making changes in preferences you can use Shift+U key for highlighting."

That does not work. Both "U" and "Shift+U" merely select the tool while deselecting whatever one may have previously selected. Compare this to MS Word or any other text editor where there are key strokes that will highlight, italicize, underline, or strikethrough the current selection.

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Urhixidur,

Thank you for reaching out.

Could you please share the Acrobat and OS version details?

Also. let us know what happens when you use the Keyshortuct "U". It would be helpful if you could share the screen recording.

We will get the behavior checked.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Urhixidur,

Thank you for reaching out.

Could you please share the Acrobat and OS version details?

Also. let us know what happens when you use the Keyshortuct "U". It would be helpful if you could share the screen recording.

We will get the behavior checked.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[msa05012]

thank God I found this. I highlight lectures all day (medical school) I spend so much time switching between text inserts and different highlight colors.... the frustration that their adobe didn't have hotkeys was eating at me... turns out the hotkeys were there, I just needed to activate them

[Aliya7729767533cguc]

Hi friend

I'm glad you found a solution to your frustration! Discovering the hotkeys for text inserts and highlight colors in Adobe has surely made your lecture highlighting process much smoother.Free Fire

[DannyBurton]

Thank heavens for this question and answer - I've been wracking my brains for ages trying to work it out. I obviously have no control on how Acrobat is programmed but, if this hugely necessary shortcut is turned off by default, it really should be made far, far easier to find how to turn it on.

For most people that aren't power-users of Adobe products, "single-key accelerators" is a very oblique term for what should really say something ending with ".... shortcuts".

[Urhixidur]

These shortcuts/accelerators only do half the job. The (H) key merely activates the highlight button; if you had a piece of text selected, instead of highlighting it, it will deselect it and then turn your cursor into a highlighting one. For that workflow, it's useless.

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Urhixidur,

Thank you for reaching out.

Please refer to the following help document for Keyboard Shortcut for the Acrobat application: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/keyboard-shortcuts.html. 

If you're looking for some specific workflow, let us know.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[tsmith1122]

You are correct, I am very frustrated. When commenting on text, I can select text using the shift and arrow keys, but there is not shortcut to highlight or strikethrough.  

[Victor33133061ocbq]

ADD to shortcut 

Customise quick tools ..... -->Comment-->Highlight text

[Urhixidur]

That only serves to make the button appear on the quick tools toolbar. Read the original question again.