Is it possible to highlight text without using the mouse?

I would like to apply the comment/highlight tool in Acrobat without using the mouse.
I select text with shift + cursor. What is the quickest way of highlighting the selected text then? I do not want to use the mouse.
From the programme help I learned that the keyboard shortcut U selects the highlighting tool. But it does not apply highlighting to text selected with the cursor.
Any suggestions?
Many thanks in advance!

Thanks for your reply Dave, but I want to know if a pop-up has to be created internally when highlighting. Can you disable to sticky note part of the highlight?
Here's an example: I highlight my college books and don't need all those pop-ups being made behind the scenes. In Acrobat X, all of my highlights would slow down the program immensely,
thankfully in XI, it doesn't happen at all, nor do I want it to in the future. Thank you for your time.

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* test6.java
* Created on 13. März 2008, 15:25
import org.gui.JCalendarCombo;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import org.gui.JCalendar;
import org.gui.JCalendarCombo;
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* @author goetz
public class test6 extends javax.swing.JFrame {
/** Creates new form test6 */
public test6() {
initComponents();
/** This method is called from within the constructor to
* initialize the form.
* WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
* always regenerated by the Form Editor.
private void initComponents() {//GEN-BEGIN:initComponents
jPanel1 = new javax.swing.JPanel();
jTextField1 = new javax.swing.JTextField();
jTextField2 = new javax.swing.JTextField();
jTextField3 = new javax.swing.JTextField();
jTextField4 = new javax.swing.JTextField();
jTextArea1 = new javax.swing.JTextArea();
jButton1 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jButton2 = new javax.swing.JButton();
jTable1 = new javax.swing.JTable();
//org.gui.JCalendar cal=new org.gui.JCalendar();
Date heute=new Date();
GregorianCalendar today = new GregorianCalendar();
today.setTime(heute);
GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();
int currentmonth =today.get(GregorianCalendar.MONTH);
int currentyear = today.get(GregorianCalendar.YEAR);
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jCalendarCombo.setDate(calendar);
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public void keyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
jTextArea1KeyPressed(evt);
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jPanel1.add(jButton1, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(50, 270, -1, -1));
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new Object [][] {
{null, null, null, null},
{null, null, null, null},
{null, null, null, null},
{null, null, null, null}
new String [] {
"Title 1", "Title 2", "Title 3", "Title 4"
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jTable1KeyPressed(evt);
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getContentPane().add(jPanel1, new org.netbeans.lib.awtextra.AbsoluteConstraints(40, 30, 500, 350));
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public void keyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
jCalendarComboKeyPressed(evt);
pack();
}//GEN-END:initComponents
public void jTable1KeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
// Add your handling code here:
if(evt.getKeyCode()==evt.VK_ESCAPE)
System.out.println("registriert");
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jButton1.requestFocus();
public void jCalendarComboKeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jTable1KeyPressed
// Add your handling code here:
if(evt.getKeyCode()==evt.VK_F6)
System.out.println("registriert Calendar");
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public void jTextArea1KeyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jTextArea1KeyPressed
// Add your handling code here:
if(evt.getKeyCode()==evt.VK_ESCAPE)
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//java.awt.event.FocusListener l=new java.awt.event.FocusListener();?????????????????????
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//mvt.MOUSE_CLICKED;
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try???????????????????????????????????????????????????????
java.awt.Robot rob=new java.awt.Robot();????????????????????????????????????????????ß
rob.mousePress(3)??????????????????????????;
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}//GEN-LAST:event_jTextArea1KeyPressed
/** Exit the Application */
public void exitForm(java.awt.event.WindowEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_exitForm
System.exit(0);
}//GEN-LAST:event_exitForm
* @param args the command line arguments
public static void main(String args[]) {
new test6().show();
// Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
public javax.swing.JButton jButton2;
public javax.swing.JTextField jTextField3;
public javax.swing.JButton jButton1;
public javax.swing.JTextArea jTextArea1;
public javax.swing.JPanel jPanel1;
public javax.swing.JTextField jTextField2;
public javax.swing.JTextField jTextField1;
public javax.swing.JTextField jTextField4;
public javax.swing.JTable jTable1;
public JCalendarCombo jCalendarCombo;
// End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables
Has anybody an idea ????
The parent Frame was created with sun one studio 4 community edition.
The JCalendar Combo was implemented by myself and runs properly by mouse, not by keyboard.

the code's not formatted so I'm not going to try to read it,
and there's too many ?? to remove before it will compile,
so, you say it works with the mouse - how, clicking a button?
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