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Highlighting and annotating PDFs is an essential part of reviewing, studying, and collaborating. Whether you’re a student marking key passages, a lawyer reviewing contracts, or a team member giving feedback on reports, Adobe Acrobat Studio makes it simple—and even smarter with AI assistance.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through how to highlight and annotate in Acrobat Studio, step by step.

Why Highlight and Annotate in PDFs?

• Improves comprehension – Focus on key points in long documents.
• Streamlines feedback – Share comments directly inside the PDF.
• Supports collaboration – Multiple team members can add annotations in one file.
• AI integration – Acrobat Studio can suggest areas to highlight or even summarize annotations.

Step-by-Step: Highlighting and Annotating in Acrobat Studio

1. Open Your PDF in Acrobat Studio

• Launch Adobe Acrobat Studio and upload your PDF.
• You can annotate contracts, research papers, reports, or lecture notes.

2. Access the Commenting Tools

• Go to Tools > Comment.
• A toolbar appears with options like Highlight, Underline, Strikethrough, and Sticky Notes.

3. Highlight Text

• Select the Highlight tool (marker icon).
• Drag your cursor over the text you want to emphasize.
• Change highlight colors (yellow, green, pink, etc.) to categorize notes.

4. Add Annotations

• Choose from multiple options:
  • Sticky Notes: Click anywhere to leave a note.
  • Underline/Strikethrough: Mark text to emphasize or suggest removal.
  • Drawing tools: Add shapes, arrows, or freehand sketches.

5. Use AI Assistance for Smarter Markups

• Ask Acrobat Studio’s AI to:
  • “Highlight all deadlines in this document.”
  • “Summarize all annotations into action items.”
  • “Simplify technical terms and highlight definitions.”

6. Share Annotations in PDF Spaces

• Save your annotated PDF.
• Share via PDF Spaces so collaborators can view, reply to, or add their own annotations in real time.

Pro Tips for Annotation

• Color code your highlights (e.g., yellow for key points, green for action items).
• Reply to comments in PDF Spaces to create threaded discussions.
• Export notes as a separate summary file for meetings or study guides.
• Combine with AI summarization to quickly turn annotations into actionable lists.

Key Takeaway

With Acrobat Studio, highlighting and annotating goes beyond just marking text. AI-powered assistance and collaborative PDF Spaces make your markups more organized, useful, and shareable.

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