At 17:20 31/03/2015 -0400, Bill Thompson wrote:
I am having great difficulty trying to do a simple thing: in text,
highlighting individual words and passages in yellow. Not simply
changing the font color, mind you, but highlighting.
o Select the relevant text.
o Go to Format | Character... | Background (or right-click |
Character... | Background).
o Click the required colour in the panel.
o OK.
or:
o Select the relevant text.
o Click the Highlighting button in the Formatting toolbar.
(Relies on the highlighting colour not having been changed from yellow.)
or:
o Select the relevant text.
o Click the down-arrow next to the Highlighting button in the
Formatting toolbar.
o Click the required colour in the panel.
or:
o Select nothing.
o Click the Highlighting button in the Formatting toolbar. The cursor
changes to a paint bucket.
o Drag across the relevant text.
o To cancel the paint bucket, either click the Highlighting button
again or press Esc.
(Relies on the highlighting colour not having been changed from yellow.)
Incidentally, a much better way to do this is to use styles - in this
case, a character style:
o Select the relevant text.
o Go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or click the Styles and
Formatting button in the Formatting toolbar, or press F11).
o In the Styles and Formatting panel, click the Character Styles button.
o Right-click, say, the Default style and select New... .
o On the Organiser tab, give the new style a name ("Yellow"?).
o On the Background tab, select the required colour.
o OK.
Now you can apply this style to any text you need highlighted.
Crucially, if you later decide that you want highlighting in green
instead, you can simply change the *style* and the effect will
immediately apply to all of the (very many?) parts of the document
that you have highlighted in this way.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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