Foxit PDF Editor lets you highlight specified areas, such as a certain text range, image, or blank space.

• To highlight an area, select Comment > Area Highlight.
• (Optional) Change the highlight color in the Format tab in the right panel. 
• Click and drag the mouse across the text range, image, or blank space that needs to be highlighted.

Tip: To copy the text in the highlighted area, please do one of the following:

Do one of the following:

1. In the Comment tab, select a type of text markup. Then click and drag from the beginning of the text you want to mark up.

   Tip: After adding text markups with the Highlight, Underline, Strikeout, Squiggly Underline, or Replace Text tool, you can still drag the handle at the beginning or end of the text to adjust the text range you have selected. To copy the marked text, please do one of the following:

You can use Text Markup tools to indicate where text should be edited or noticed. Text Markups fall within the comments category and can be made visible/invisible by clicking Comment > Manage Comments > Comments > Show All/ Hide All. They do not change the actual text in the PDF. Instead, they indicate which text should be deleted, inserted, highlighted or underlined. Text Markup tools include Highlight, Squiggly, Underline, Strikeout, Replace, and Insert.

If your PDF file contains front matter likes document cover and copyright page, the page numbers on the document pages (i.e. the printed page number) may not start from the document cover but from the body pages. You may need to synchronize the page numbers displayed below the page thumbnails in PDF viewers with the printed page numbers. Foxit PDF Editor enables users to change the format of page numbering displayed in PDF viewers to meet different needs. 

To change the format of page numbering, please do as below:

What’s Bates Numbering?

Bates numbering is used in the legal, medical, and business fields to place identifying numbers and/or date/time-marks on images and documents. These numbers may be solely numeric or may contain a combination of letters and numbers. It is a unique serial number attached to every page of a document collected and is also a method of indexing legal documents for easy identification and retrieval. 

To add a new watermark, please do the following:

1. Open a document where you want to add a watermark and choose Organize > Watermark > Add.

2. Edit the watermark in the “Add Watermark” dialog box. Tip: If you have previously saved templates, or if your administrator has configured shared templates for your organization, you can select one from the Select Template menu at the top of the dialog box. 

To add a new background, please do the following: 

1. Open a document where you want to add a background and choose Organize > Background > Add.

2. Edit the background in the “Add Background” dialogue box. Tip: If you have previously saved templates, or if your administrator has configured shared templates for your organization, you can select one from the Select Template menu at the top of the dialog box. 

To add a new header & footer, please do the following:

With a document open in the application window, do the following:

Sometimes you adjust the order of the bookmarks in your PDF document, and then you may need to rearrange the PDF pages according to the new bookmark order. To do this, you can use the Rearrange command in Foxit PDF Editor to quickly sort pages in just a few clicks.