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My macbook pro is running masOS Mojave 10.14.6


The select tool in Preview will not highlight or grab anything. I've tried on several different files types: PNG, JPEG etc. Using the select tool I can see the initial 'dotted' box but nothing gets selected.


Thank you in advance.

MacBook Pro 13", OS X 10.10

Posted on May 5, 2020 5:11 AM

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May 5, 2020 5:56 AM in response to Stonearches

Thank you for your response but pdf's don't work either.

Some PDFs have pictures of text, not the actual text.

If you can search for text and it finds the text, then you should be able to select the text, but the marquee will not select text (or really, anything). It can be used to select an area to copy, but that will be an image, not text.

The text selector will select text, but you still have to copy that.

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