Besides many cool features, Microsoft Edge is also a handy PDF reader. Besides displaying a PDF file, it provides good tools to use when reading a PDF document. You can draw on PDF with 30 different colors in freehand mode, use a gum to delete what you’ve drawn, rotate the PDF, zoom in or out, etc. Among all these options, a unique feature that you will not find in other popular browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, etc. highlight the text in PDF and save the highlighted PDF in Microsoft Edge.
You can use four colors to highlight PDF text (including hyperlinks). The available colors are Pink, light blue, green, and Yellow. When you have finished highlighting a PDF document, you can save a separate copy of this PDF with all the highlighted text.
This message will help you highlight PDF files and save those highlighted PDF files using Microsoft Edge. The screenshot below shows an example of a PDF file highlighted with distinct colors using the Microsoft Edge browser.
Microsoft Edge does not come with PDF editing features such as editing PDF text, adding a text box, resizing images, etc. free PDF editing software available to do so. But, if you’re looking for a browser with PDF highlighting, Microsoft Edge is definitely a better option to try.
Let’s see how to do it.
How to highlight text in PDF format in Microsoft Edge
Launch the Microsoft Edge browser, then open a PDF file there.
When the PDF is open, select text to highlight. Right click on the selected text and accessHighlight‘Option visible in the context menu of the right click. Green, pink, yellow and light blue the color options are there. Select your preferred color and the text will be highlighted with that color.
You can repeat the above steps to highlight any other text in this PDF document.
When highlighting the text, you should be careful because you cannot use Eraser or Undo (Ctrl + Z) to highlight the text. If this happens, you have to start over. So just make sure to highlight the correct text. If you are just trying the feature, just highlight any text.
Save a highlighted PDF using Microsoft Edge
The section above explains how to highlight any available text content in a PDF file using Microsoft Edge. Now when the PDF is highlighted, you need to save it for later use.
To save the highlighted PDF, you can press the shortcut “Ctrl + S‘Where to use’to saveThe icon appears in the right corner just above the PDF file.
When the Save as is open, select a location on your PC and save the highlighted PDF.
Use a highlighted PDF
Now that you have the PDF with all the content highlighted, you can open this PDF in any browser or PDF reader or viewer. You will see all of this highlighted text in this PDF reader / reader.
Highlighting a PDF document and saving the highlighted PDF with Microsoft Edge has benefited me many times. It will also benefit many other users who regularly use Microsoft Edge to read PDF documents and want to highlight PDF text.
This message will show you what you can do if the text highlighter does not work in Microsoft Edge.
