Switch off your printer and put those highlighter pens back in the drawer, it’s time to join the 21st century by using a PDF highlighter. That’s right, you can highlight PDF documents directly on your PC, laptop or tablet. Find out how to highlight in a PDF in this simple guide.
Here’s how to highlight text in a PDF easily.
1. Select the highlighter. Open Adobe Acrobat and select the highlighter tool on the horizontal toolbox.
2. Highlight. Once selected you can click and drag to highlight your PDF.
3. Save. Simply save the file as normal to keep your changes.
There are several ways to highlight text in a PDF. Here’s how.
Whether your team members are working from home, the office or on the move, there may be times when they have limited access to systems, tools and resources. Adobe offers online tools that are perfectly suited for this scenario.
If you have an Internet connection, you can highlight text on your PDF from anywhere in the world — and on any device — with an online editor. Simply go to Adobe Acrobat online services from any web browser and follow these three easy steps:
Acrobat online gives you the flexibility to work wherever you are while maintaining the standards of excellence and ease of use you’re looking for.
If you work with PDFs often, you might find it easier to work with your documents off-line using the full functionality of dedicated PDF software, such as Adobe Acrobat. The PDF file format is effective at preventing unwanted changes to the file, but it can also be used for editing and mark-up.
While the tools for editing a PDF aren’t as widely known as with some other formats, they are just as simple once you know where to look. Here's how easy it is to highlight important text directly in a PDF:
Learning how to highlight your PDF digitally will let you interact with your documents in a way that utilises your files more effectively, improves collaboration and communication and speeds up workflows.
Adobe’s online tools can help with converting documents into PDFs.
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Adobe has a wide range of specialist tools to help you with all your document needs. For example, converting PDF to Word.
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Once the document is highlighted and marked as you want it to be, you may need to print it to send, present or continue to edit it tangibly. Printing a PDF defaults to a setting which will only print the document — not including your mark-up. If you want to include your highlights in the printed file, follow these simple steps:
In addition to highlighting your text, you can also edit, underline and strikethrough text, as well as explore other capabilities such as converting PDFs. You can also add comments and notes, draw suggestions, compress the file to make it easier to share and much more.
See everything you can do with Acrobat to leave pens and highlighters behind and stay productive anywhere.
Whether you’ve accidentally highlighted the wrong section or you no longer need a highlighted area in your PDF, removing a highlight in a PDF is easy. Just follow these simple steps.
It’s also possible to change the colour of a highlighted section in a PDF. Colour coding can be helpful in a wide variety of scenarios. But what if you highlight a section in the wrong colour or need to change it later? With Acrobat, you can change the colour of the highlighted section in a few short clicks:
Whether you’re working as part of a team, referencing a range of sources, bookmarking information to review later or categorising sections of text, highlighting your PDF in different colours can help.
Highlighting a PDF can be helpful for many reasons. If you’re highlighting sections to refer back to at a later date or assign to another team member, it can be helpful to add comments for clarity. Here’s how to add comments to a highlight in an Acrobat PDF.
Highlighting isn’t the only thing you can do with Adobe. From saving pages as PDFs to embedding fonts, discover the power of Adobe today.