Highlight text on black background?

Does anyone know how to highlight text in acrobat 9 on a black background?

I don't think I understand the question, why would highlighting text on a black background be any different than any other color background?
The only time I have not been able to highlight text in acrobat is when the person who created the document converted all the text to outlines before they exported to PDF or if there are security settings applied.

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