Acrobat Reader DC is available for Windows and macOS. To use this tool first we need to select the tool.
It would make a massive difference to the speed of mark-up across a document if it could be done. This wikiHow teaches you how to sign a PDF with your personal signature using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. It allows you to select the particular text, a block of text, image, entire PDF document, or rectangle area from the document. It currently needs to be frequently ‘re-set’ to use a different color. Note that you can also change the color of the highlighted text. (Optional) To add a note, double-click the markup and add text in a pop-up note. This feature is especially useful when you are marking up text in a column. Control-drag to mark up a rectangular area of text. All these Free PDF readers are small in size, and fast in performance. It would save a lot of time and there would be a lot less playing about with keyboard shortcuts and mouse clicks to carry out the task. Drag from the beginning of the text you want to mark up. Here are 6 free PDF readers to replace Adobe Readers. If that is too much for the ‘system’, then at least 3 different ones would still be helpful.
I have not tried it in Read mode, but it does work in Full Screen mode.
H is for the Hand tool, and U is for the Highlight tool. You then may have to restart Acrobat/Reader. Search previous document (with Search results displaying multiple. You do this in the Preferences, in the General tab, by checking the 'Use single-key acceleerators to access tools' option. Move to next search result and highlight it in the document. Move to previous search result and highlight it in the document. Ideally I’d like to have 5 ready-to-go ‘highlight text’ icons at the top of the document (with different colors for each that I have pre-chosen). Move focus to next tab in a tabbed dialog box. When using Acrobat Reader to research articles I frequently need to highlight a variety of sentences (within one document) in different colors, for example one color for statements I agree with, a different color for statements I disagree with, another for statements that prompt me to ask a question, etc.