Feature Highlight: Highlighter Tool

Angela Aff · 2025-03-13T15:11:59+00:00

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Hey Bluebeamers! This week, we're highlighting the Highlight tool!

The Highlighter tool was a popular feature discussed among Bluebeam User Group members during the GOVBUG & COBUG meeting earlier this week and thought it's a great feature to share here too!

When we think of a Highlighter, we often think of the bright-colored Sharpies, right? Well now, think of Bluebeam’s Highlighter tool as your personalized highlighter.

You can use the tool as either a free-form highlighter or Enable Text Highlighting to achieve a more controlled text highlighting.

This image shows both a text highlight (with the Enable Text Highlighting preference enabled) and a free-form highlight.

Plus, you can change the appearance (and more) of the Highlighter Tool

Share below!

Tips when using the highlighter tool?
How do you customize the appearance?
Benefits of using the highlighter tool?

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Jaisah

I have "Enable Text Highlighting" turned on but sometimes this can be very annoying if I am trying to highlight something and there is hidden text behind or diagonal text on the page so sometimes, I just want to use the freeform highlighter but I am not aware of any way to quickly and manually specify that I want to use freeform highlighting. Could you add a keyboard shortcut like "hold alt" while using the highlighter to force freeform?

Jes Stafford

You should be able to hold CTRL to highlight freeform rather than snapping to text.

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