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Did you ever find yourself wanting to highlight a PDF, but couldn’t? Maybe you had a question on a form, or a key point to remember. You might pine for paper copies, but at pdfFiller, we prefer to use our simple online tool to directly highlight on PDF instead. Let us tell you why. In the world without PDF highlight, you probably had to print the form in question, highlight the text with an light highlighter which would often soak through the paper and mark the text on the other side. Once you got your answer, and because you could not submit the form with highlighted text, you had to print it again to make a clean version. Besides needing a printer and a scanner; this whole process is just too time-consuming. Now look at how to highlight in PDF documents directly. You can simply use pdfFiller! To start, upload a form to your account or open a document that’s already there. When you open the form you’ll see a toolbar along the top with the Highlight button.

Click the button to activate the highlighter. Select the content that you want to highlight by clicking and dragging the cursor. Release the cursor when you have finished highlighting text. That’s it! Unlike permanent highlighters, you can use the slider to resize the highlighter, too.

To learn more about highlighting in PDF documents, please watch this video:

When you use pdfFiller to highlight in PDF, your documents look very neat and professional. In addition, you can always remove your highlighting once you’re done with it. Just click on it and then click the trash can icon that appears above. If you like being able to highlight in PDFs, check out the other great features that pdfFiller has to offer. You can black out and erase text, as well as add sticky notes, text boxes and pictures. Check out these tutorials to see the other great things that pdfFiller can do for you!

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To highlight text, follow these steps: Select the Highlight Text tool from the Comment & Markup toolbar. Drag over the text that you want highlighted. The text is now highlighted.
Choose Tools > Comment, and select the Highlight Text tool, the Strike through Text tool, or the Underline Text tool. Note: Drag from the beginning of the text you want to mark up. (Optional) To add a note, double-click the markup and add text in a pop-up note.
OCR the document if necessary. Choose Tools>Redaction. Click the Search and Redact button. Type in your search term. Click the Search and Redact button. Click Check All which will mark each result.
Annotate and View Notes To create a highlight, tap the center of your screen to bring up the Action Bar. Tap the Annotation Toolbar, then the Highlighter icon. Drag the marker with your finger to the end of a sentence or paragraph to highlight the text.
Open PDF. Click the “Open File” button to select the file you'd like to highlight. This will open the file within PDF element. Highlight Text in PDF. Go to the “Comment” tab and select “Highlight”. Save Highlighted PDF. Once you have highlighted the text, you can save the changes.
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