How to highlight pdf text

Hello, My Adobe Reader X1 won't allow me to highlight text. Can someone provide me with step by step instructions on how this is done? Could it be my security software that's keeping this command from working, or does this option not work within the free version of Adobe Reader X1? So frustrated!!!.

Most likely, the file you're trying to work on doesn't have actual text, but an image (probably scanned) of text. If the file hasn't been through an OCR process (in Adobe Acrobat, for example) then you can't use any of the text-related commenting tools on it, since they have nothing to "hang on" to. You can still use the Drawing Markups tools, such as the Rectangle tools, to achieve a similar result.
To know for sure if that's indeed the issue with your file you can try selecting the text using the selection tool. If you can't select it, it's an image.

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