Surface pen no longer able to highlight the article

Yes, this is a nightmare. I can't roll back so I'm moving to my old PC with a mouse. My Surface has proved a waste of money. Why on earth update but not tell us what you're doing? I've spent weeks looking for a way round it.

Hi Swee,

I think what you are seeing are some Pen interaction improvements that were made in the Fall Creators update. 

**Scrolling with pen.**In the effort to create a more intuitive pen interaction on Windows, we are emphasizing natural and direct manipulation of content with pen. You don’t have to “hunt and peck” for scrollbars or frequently switch between pen and touch when navigating; now you can scroll content directly and fluently as you would with your finger.

**Selection with pen.**We also revised selection with pen by giving it more control over the selection process. Not only are we showing selection grippers whenever text is selected via pen, but also are allowing for a consistent and fast selection of content – text, objects, or ink—by dragging the pen while the barrel button is pressed.

For example, if you are in Edge or a Store app you can now select text by quickly double tapping a word and then dragging the selection grippers to adjust the words highlighted OR you can press and hold the pen's barrel button while you highlight the desired text.

Hope this helps,

Greg

I have this same problem. I tried the double tapping of the word and it still will not allow me to highlight at all when reading a PDF. I am a graduate student and this one of the major reasons I purchased this laptop. The fact that this update is preventing me from using an extremely important function is frustrating. What can I do to go back to the way things worked before the update. This problem literally makes my $1500 laptop utterly useless for school now.

Interestingly, since my last reboot, the highlighting is now working normally.  I didn't change anything and it doesn't appear there have been any recent updates since last posts.  I'm not sure why this is, if it's temporary or why it now works properly. 

@MS, if something was pushed to change this behaviour, please explain.

Greg

Same thing here as well, all is back to normal.

Interestingly, since my last reboot, the highlighting is now working normally.  I didn't change anything and it doesn't appear there have been any recent updates since last posts.  I'm not sure why this is, if it's temporary or why it now works properly. 

@MS, if something was pushed to change this behaviour, please explain.

Greg