How to Add annotations and drawing markups to highlight text Adobe's Acrobat Reader

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1. Introduction

How to Add annotations and drawing markups to highlight text Adobe's Acrobat Reader

2. Annotations and drawing markup tools

Show annotations and drawing markup tools

Annotations and markup tools don’t appear by default, except when you open a PDF in a managed review workflow.

1. Choose Tools > Comment to open the Comment toolbar. The comments that you add to the document are displayed in the right pane.

1.  To see the labels along with the tool icons, right-click on the Comment toolbar and select Show All Labels.
2. The drawing markup tools are grouped under the Drawing Tools menu. Click the Drawing Tools icon 

1.  on the toolbar, and then select Expand Drawing Tools to add the drawing tools to the secondary toolbar.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Select an annotation or drawing markup tool

• Open the Comment toolbar and select the desired annotation tool.
• To select the drawing markup tool, open the Comment toolbar and click the Drawing Tools icon 

• . Select the desired tool from the Drawing Tools menu.
• After you make an initial comment, the tool changes back to the Select tool so that you can move, resize, or edit your comment. (The Pencil and Highlight Text tools stay selected.) 

Keep an annotation tool selected

You can add multiple comments without reselecting the tool.

1. In the Comment toolbar, select the tool you want to use (but don’t use it yet).
2. Click the Keep Tool Selected icon