How to Highlight, strikethrough, or underline text Adobe's Acrobat Reader

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1. Introduction

How to Highlight, strikethrough, or underline text Adobe's Acrobat Reader

2. Highlight, strikethrough, or underline text

Highlight text

Choose Tools > Comment to view the toolbar.

You can use the Highlight Text tool, Strikethrough Text tool, and the Underline Text tool to add comments by themselves or in conjunction with notes.

You can add a highlight with a note or cross out text or underline text by selecting the text using the Select tool, right-clicking, and then choosing that option from the menu that appears. However, if you’re marking up a lot of text, the specialized tools are faster and easier to use.

1. Choose Tools > Comment, and select the Highlight Text tool 

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2. Drag from the beginning of the text you want to mark up. Control-drag to mark up a rectangular area of text. This feature is especially useful when you are marking up text in a column.
3. (Optional) Double-click the markup to add text in a pop-up note to add note.

Note that you can also change the color of the highlighted text. Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) on the highlighted text and click Properties to open the Highlight Properties dialog box, allowing you to change the color.

In case you need to delete the highlight on the text (without deleting the text), right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) on the highlighted text and click Delete.

Replace text

1. From the Tools Comment toolbar, select Add Note to Replace Text   

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2. Select the text. Any selected text is crossed out and a pop-up note opens.
3. Do one of the following:
4. Type the text to be inserted or added. The insertion caret 

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2. To indicate that a new paragraph should be added, press Enter, and then close the pop-up note without adding text. The paragraph insertion caret 

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 Add a note to a text edit

1. Using the Select tool, right-click a text edit.
2. Select Open Pop-Up Note from the menu.
3. Type your note in the pop-up note.

Insert text

1. From the Tools Comment toolbar, select the Insert Text at Cursor tool 

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2. Click between the words or characters where you want to insert text.
3. Do any of the following:
4. Type the text you want to insert.
5. To indicate that a new paragraph should be added, press Enter, and then close the pop-up note without adding text. The paragraph insertion caret 

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2. To indicate that a space should be added, press the spacebar, and then close the pop-up note without adding text. The space insertion caret 

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2. You can also indicate text edits by using the Select tool to select text, right-click the selected text, and then choose a text edit annotation.  

Delete text

1. From Tools > Comment toolbar, choose the Strikethrough tool 

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2. Select the text to mark for deletion.

Delete text markups

 If markup comments are stacked, delete the comments in the Comments list: Choose Comment > Comments List, select the comment, and press Delete.

Select the markup and press Delete.