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Highlight's sequence in Preview app.

How to change the highlight's sequence in Preview app?


My sequence is messy.


MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 20, 2020 7:58 AM

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Posted on Oct 20, 2020 8:04 AM

You don't. Apple broke that organizational feature in the Highlights and Notes view. Instead, use the Preview Inspector (⌘i) and click on its Annotation viewer, which lists the annotations in order:



Or you can open the PDF in the current Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, and the annotations will be in sorted page order.

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Oct 20, 2020 8:04 AM in response to kelly0511_

You don't. Apple broke that organizational feature in the Highlights and Notes view. Instead, use the Preview Inspector (⌘i) and click on its Annotation viewer, which lists the annotations in order:



Or you can open the PDF in the current Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, and the annotations will be in sorted page order.

Highlight's sequence in Preview app.

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