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Highlighting text in a PDF document

You can mark up text in a PDF document. You can mark it for removal by striking it out or call attention to it by underlining or highlighting it.

To highlight text:

Step 1

Choose Tools > Text Tool.

Step 2

Select the text you want to highlight.

Step 3

Open the Tools > Mark Up submenu, and choose one of the following:

Highlight Text: Changes the background color of the selected text.

Strike Through Text: Puts a line through the middle of the selected text.

Underline Text: Puts a line under the selected text.

Step 4

To change the color of the highlight or underline, choose Tools > Inspector.

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