Text highlighted in a custom color on the Acrobat Reader window.

Want to highlight text and text fields using unlike colors in Adobe Acrobat Reader? Maybe your certificate groundwork or text matches the color of the default. If so, it's easy to change the highlight color.

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Change the Text Highlight Color in Acrobat Reader

To alter the color used to highlight the text, first, open your PDF document with Acrobat Reader.

In the document, select the text y'all want to highlight. If you have already highlighted your text and you only want to change the existing highlight, so select your currently highlighted text.

We'll select some text.

Select text in an Acrobat Reader document.

Right-click the selected text and cull "Highlight Text" from the bill of fare.

Right-click the text and choose "Highlight Text" from the menu.

Acrobat Reader highlights your selected text with the default highlight color. To change this color, right-click the highlighted text and choose "Properties."

Right-click the highlighted text and choose "Properties."

You will meet a "Highlight Properties" window. Here, at the meridian, click the "Appearance" tab. So select a new highlight colour from the "Colour" field. Adjust the opacity also if y'all want to make highlights more noticeable.

To brand the newly selected color the default highlight color, activate the "Make Backdrop Default" option. Then click "OK."

Select a new highlight color on the "Highlight Properties" window.

The text in your certificate now uses the newly chosen highlight color.

New highlight color.

And that's all there is to it.

Change the Class Field Highlight Colour in Acrobat Reader

You can change the highlight color for class fields also. To do and so, first, launch Acrobat Reader. You exercise not need to have a document open.

If you're on Windows, then on the Acrobat Reader window, select Edit > Preferences from the menu bar. If you are on Mac, click Acrobat Reader > Preferences in the menu bar.

Select Edit > Preferences in Acrobat Reader.

On the "Preferences" window, in the left sidebar, click "Forms."

Click "Forms" on the "Preferences" window.

In the "Highlight Color" section on the correct, y'all tin can specify the default highlight color individually for the optional and mandatory course fields.

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To change the optional fields' highlight color, click the "Fields Highlight Color" pick and pick a new color. To change the mandatory fields' highlight color, click the "Required Fields Highlight Color" and select a color.

Then, at the lesser, click "OK."

Change the form field highlight color in the "Highlight Color" section.

Yous are all set.

Acrobat Reader will at present use your newly selected colors for highlighting items in your documents. Savor!

Having trouble reading a PDF file in Acrobat Reader? If so, invert your PDF file's colors and see if that makes any difference. Information technology'due south very piece of cake to practise that.

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