Highlight, strikethrough, or underline text

Note:

In Reader only Sticky Note and Highlight tools are available. Other commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically include commenting rights.


Choose Tools > Comment to view the menu bar.

Menu bar for Highlight Text tool, Strikethrough Text tool, and Underline Text tool

Choose Tools > Comment to see the menu bar for Highlight Text tool, Strikethrough Text tool, and Underline Text tool

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 you can 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 , the Strikethrough Text tool , or the Underline Text tool .

    Note:

    If you want to apply more than one comment using the Strikeout Text tool or the Underline Text tool, choose Keep Tool Selected from the Options menu after you select the tool. The Highlight Text tool stays selected after you make the first comment.


  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) To add a note, double-click the markup and add text in a pop-up 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, which will allow you to change the color.

Change Highlight Color option

Change Highlight Color option: The color of the highlighted text can be changed using this option.


In case if 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.

Delete Highlight Color

Delete highlight color without deleting the text.