Hi micmb Are you asking if you can hide highlighting and then unhide? So rather than deleting it, you just have an option to not show highlighting? If so, Acrobat does not have that functionality at this time.
If you want to deactivate the highlighting so that after you've highlighted one bit of text, Acrobat won't highlight other text that you then select, then you'd simply click the highligh icon to make it inactive and when you select other text, that text won't highlight.
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