Preview not working properly (Mavericks and Lion)

I have been using Preview and loving it for years.  Now, all of sudden, it's completely different.  I HATE that you can't just Save As anymore.  The highlighting tool is not working in many documents.  It works sometimes and I can't figure out what's different about the documents that it works in compared to the ones that it doesn't work in.  Instead of highlighting the text that I'm trying to choose, the whole page changes color, but when I let go of the click, the color is gone.  No highlighting happening.
I just don't know what to do.  It's so frustrating!!

Hold down the Option key and you'll get Save As  back in the File menu in Preview.

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