Find tool highlight color glitch

I noticed that when I use the Find Tool in Pages 09 (newest version), it will find the desired word but it won't highlight the text in yellow in certain documents. In some of documents it works fine and highlights them in yellow when it finds them, but others it does not. It highlights them in white, which makes them impossible to see on the page. Sometimes I can see a small little piece of the yellow box wanting to show up, but it is barely there.
This is obviously a glitch that it is driving me nuts!

That is not Pages 09 it is Pages 5 and yes there are bugs.
Peter

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I am using Version 2.0.7 and noticed two problems with the text find feature that I hope someone else knows about a configuration setting or work around that will resolve the problems.
Thanks,
Problem 1. Found search characters are highlighted in gray. This color is difficult to spot if not looking straight at the screen or if only a few characters are in the search. Is there a preference setting that can change the color of found text searches?
Problem 2. When reaching the end of the email, there is no alert message to ask if the find function should search backwards. Clicking on the find Next button causes the process automatically loop back to the top and begin again.
Is this a bug or the way the function works?

Thank you for responding to my query.
I performed the following additional analysis and confirmed the behaviors still exists. Please let me know these conditions can be duplicated.
Problem 1 - highlight text color
A. Checked preference settings as recommended and confirmed Highlight Color is "Gold".
B. Opened mail message, selected Edit>Find and typed in the search characters.
C. Clicked on the next button in the Find window.
D. Results is that the found text highlight color was "Grey" in the email message. What would be expected is the found text color to be "Gold".
Problem 2 - End of message foud text alert.
I read the initial description and found that this problem was misstated. So I am offering the following script to illustrate it:
A. In the find box select a word or combination of characters that does exist in the message.
B. Click on find button.
C. Listen for the audio alert advising there was no match.
D. Change the Find Box selection to a word or group of characters that occcurs multiple times in the message.
E. Click on the Next button in the Find text window.
F. Note that the find process stops at each occurence of the search characters. (as stated in problem 1 the highlight color is "Grey')
G. Keep on clicking the Find button. The result is that there is no end of message alert. Unlike the alert in step C, the find process automatically loops back to the first match and continues as long as the Next button is clicked. What would be expected is an end of search alert for both unfound and found conditions.
Regards,
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Using Lion 10.7.2 and Safari 5.1.1.
The highlight color of searched (cmd+F) text follows the System Preferenes Appearance highlight color for normal web pages. For PDF documents, however, when searching for terms, Safari doesn't hand off, what, "focus" properly to the PDF doc to use the System Preference highlight color. Instead, it uses a very-hard-to-see light grey color. This article alludes to the issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/3699776#3699776
The Tab-key workaround in that article doesn't work for Safari. Instead, one must physically click the PDF document of the desired highlight color will never be used.
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I have this exact same issue with my Mac Mini home media server. It has a fixed IP. However there is no vpn client installed.
When I restart the computer everything works fine. Then after a couple of days the dns loses it. Dig works fine and ping. If I try google in a browser it won't load, but if I put in an IP address of a known existing website, it works fine. I can still use remote desktop to access the computer. But if I try to access iTunes through the Remote iPhone app it fails to connect.
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Hello
I have the same problem as mumbles (in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2257163&#2257163): When I do Find in Safari and look for a word, it highlights the search term in a very light blue that I can barely see. — Just that I don't want to have the highlight color set to, say, strong red systemwide, since this is useful with the find command on a web page, but bothersome in all other cases. Is there a way to change this in Safari only? (I'm afraid there isn't, for it seems tied to the system, but maybe I'm as wrong here as I often am … )
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N.
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Hi Nikolai
I know what you mean - one tip is instead of clicking the next button from the Find box, press enter on your keyboard. For me , this highlights the word rather more visibly & you can use the shortcut Command G ( Apple key + G ) to search for the next instance.
I have the system highlight colour set to a muted Orange & the overall appearance set to Blue & find this to be an excellent compromise - although clicking the Next button still gives a highlight in some impossible-to-see grey/blue.
Is there a way to change this in Safari only
Not so far as I know - sorry.
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I'm having a strange (to me anyways) issue with 256 color terminals. The issue appears under xterm-256color and rvxt(-unicode)-256color, but not under any of the 8-color terminals I've tried.
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