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AkanchhaS8194121
AkanchhaS8194121Correct answer
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January 30, 2017

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

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Victor33133061ocbq
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October 24, 2023

ADD to shortcut 

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

 

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Urhixidur
Participant
October 26, 2023

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

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    Urhixidur
    Participant
    November 10, 2022

    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.

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    Meenakshi_Negi
    Meenakshi_Negi
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    November 11, 2022

    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

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    DannyBurton
    Participant
    April 11, 2021

    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".

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      msa05012
      Participant
      November 27, 2020

      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

       

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      Aliya7729767533cguc
      Participant
      May 23, 2023

      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

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      AkanchhaS8194121
      AkanchhaS8194121Correct answer
      Legend
      January 30, 2017

      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

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        thefakeoyen
        Participant
        May 22, 2023

        This doesn't work

         

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