Thanks. That did it.

Thanks for resolving this tool. So much simpler.

select the highlight tool

then press " ctrl+e"

now if you want to change the color of a highlight, the button can be placed anywhere on the page. 2 clicks. first does a drop down. second selects a color. while retaining your tradition marker for your next highlight. this is already built into adobe and works well

wish i would have found it sooner

YES PLEASE. Temporarily changing the highlighter colour is SUCH a cumbersome process, it drives me nuts. Compare the Apple Preview program, where you just have to click on an arrow next to the highlighter button to change the colour.

It would seem simple to give a pull-down menu with your favorite 3-5 colors as highlighters. If you want to highlight in more than one color, which is something many people that use physical highlighters do (I mean, after all, you can either buy yellow or 5-pack. Do you wonder why?)

And while we are at it, why not separate (or offer the ability to separate) highlighting from commenting). What I mean is putting the highlighter/underline/sticky note next to the "save button in the menu" In a perfect world, I'd like to select my highlighter, make my highlight, and right-click to comment. Just go through those operations, and see how far you have to dig (or switch menus) to do something simple.

Bluebeam Revu has this feature. I wrote about it here: https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2018/10/how-to-make-multiple-color-highlighting.html

Selecting would prep and pressing h would highlight. And Ctrl +h would control color at the location of the mouse.

Selecting the text would prep the hotkey and pressing "h" for example would highlight.

Maybe Ctrl + h would control highlighter color :)