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Highlighting in a comment & markup text box

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2008-11-07 12:11:08
jesse17
Registered: Nov 7 2008
Posts: 2

I have been trying to figure out if it is possible to highlight the text in a text box from the tools menu under cmment & markup? I have abode acrobat 8 standard. Your help will be much appreciated.

Thank you,

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 8.1, Windows
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2008-11-07 18:28:27
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Hmm, well you can change the color of a piece of text in the popup of a comment annotation. This is a way of highlighting, and it can be done through the "properties" toolbar. Or if you are talking about a "FreeText" annotation, the text can also be colored with the properties toolbar. Is this what you mean or did you have something else in mind?

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2011-10-07 12:32:45
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karenb
Registered: Oct 7 2011
Posts: 1
I am trying to highlight text in a fillable pdf. I can highlight everything but the text I have typed in to a text box. Can you help?

I am using Acrobat 9 Standard.
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2011-10-07 13:22:47
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try67
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Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
You can't add a highlight annotation to text in a text box. If you want to do so, you'll have to flatten the file first.

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