Lee Yan Fong Library

Read, highlight & annotate

Reading PDFs

A reference with an attached PDF will display a small PDF icon next to its listing in the main panel. You can open the PDF file with Mendeley directly by either clicking on the PDF icon, or double click on the reference listing.

Highlight and annotate

Mendeley Desktop includes a powerful PDF reader which allows you to add highlights and notes to documents. Let's take a look at some of the basic functions:

Text select tool – use this tool to select text within your document. You can use this to copy and paste relevant passages, or to apply highlighting and notes.

Pan tool – use this tool to navigate around the document. Click and drag to scroll through the document.

Note tool – use this tool to create notes at specific locations within the document. Click wherever you want the note to appear.

Highlight tool – use this tool to apply highlighting to text within the document. The highlight tool will apply whichever color is currently set as active.

Some tips for reading and annotating documents

Export your annotated PDFs

You can export your annotated PDFs by choosing "Export PDF with Annotatiosn" from the "File" menu. Your annotations will be added to the end of the document.

PDF full text search

Search the full text of the PDF by typing in the upper right search box. Move to the next match of the word by clicking the "Next" button at the top of the PDF.

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Reading PDFs

Highlight and annotate

Some tips for reading and annotating documents

Export your annotated PDFs

PDF full text search