How to highlight a PDF on your Mac computer using the built-in Preview app

• You can easily highlight a PDF on a Mac when you open the file with Preview.
• To highlight text with your desired colors, use the markup tools found at the top of the program window.
• Highlighting can be helpful when reading articles, editing drafts, or proofreading others’ work.
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Whether you’re reading articles, editing your own drafts, or proofreading others’ work, it may be helpful to highlight text in a PDF.

You can easily highlight PDFs on a Mac with your desired colors when you open the file with Preview. You can easily do so using the markup tools found at the top of the screen.

Here’s how to do it.

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How to highlight a PDF on a Mac

1. Open the Preview app on your Mac and select the file you wish to highlight through the “File” menu option, where you can select “Open…” to locate a file.

• You can also open a PDF directly into Preview from your desktop, documents folders, an email, or in Messages.

2. Highlight the text with your cursor first.

3. Once the desired text is highlighted, click on the highlighter icon found at the top of the screen. This will automatically highlight your text.

4. To change the color of the highlight, click the arrow next to the highlighter icon. Any text you highlight from now on will be highlighted in that color until you change it again.

You can also show the complete markup toolbar by clicking on the icon with a pencil tip at the top of the page to use the "Show Markup Toolbar" option, which lists out more features for drawing and annotating.

The shortcut to open this toolbar is SHIFT + COMMAND + A. You can also open and close the toolbar by selecting "View" at the top Preview toolbar and select "Show Markup Toolbar" or "Hide Markup Toolbar."

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