How to hide selection highlight?

[kurth76115270]

Sorry, this must be very basic, but I'm in Illustrator CC2018 and I can't figure out how to hide the selection highlight.

Where'd they put it?

thanks

kurt

[Doug A Roberts]

what do you mean by selection highlight? what are you selecting?

[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

View Menu>Hide Edges or keyboard shortcut Command (Mac)/Control (PC)-H.

EDIT: Make sure that "Hide Bounding Box" has been chosen under the View Menu as well if you don't want anything selected to be highlighted at all.

[michaelw21088963]

Doesn't work for type.

[tromboniator]

What behavior are you seeing? It should be the same function for all objects.

Peter

[whamalamaboom]

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/solution-remove-highlighting-when-selecting-type/m-p/1165...

[Ty3829167179l3]

In more recent versions, like 2024, 2025, you might want to try CMD-U.

[Monika Gause]

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@Ty3829167179l3  schrieb:

In more recent versions, like 2024, 2025, you might want to try CMD-U.

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Those are smart guides. They have been existing since version CS2 (in 2005) and it's something totally different than what has been discussed in this thread.