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Tom_Fox 

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Tom_Fox wrote:

josh_bodner

 

PDF highlighting is a nice feature, but there is a bug in your implementation. If I highlight in yellow, and then the same text in blue, I end up with with green!

 

I don't think this is the behaviour most people are expecting, and there is also no option to remove the highlighting in case you make a mistake or change your mind. Can you also add a toolbar button please, as well as the right click menu.

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Hi, about 1 month ago I had the same question, so I asked and here is the answer the Edge developers gave me:

"Selection is not needed to modify (change color) or to delete existing highlight. Option to delete a highlight is displayed with right click over an existing highlight.

When a selection is made, options displayed are to create a highlight from selection and thus can be used to create overlapping highlights."

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/the-option-to-remove-highlights-from-pdfs-is-gone-in-version-80/m-p/1096422/highlight/true#M20773

To complete that:

1. When you want to highlight a piece of text in your PDF, you first highlight it with your mouse/touch and then right-click on it and select Highlight => Color
2. When you want to change the color of your already-highlight text, you no longer need to highlight the same text with your mouse/touch. all you have to do is to move your mouse cursor on the already-highlighted (with color) text, then right-click and choose another color.
3. In order to remove a highlight, just like Step 2, you move your mouse cursor over the already-highlighted (with color) text, right-click => Highlight => None.
4. There are only 4 colors available (Yellow, Green, Light Blue, Pink). in order to create other colors, we have the ability to mix them together! to do that, just like Step 1, you highlight a text, after that repeat Step 1 once again and this time choose a different color, you will see you created a different color. if you choose the same color again, you will create a darker shade of it.

I can create a quick demo video for you if you want 🙂