Highlight color during find in pages

This has been bugging me for a long time. How can I change the highlight color when I do a find in pages? It is really hard for me to see what is highlighted. I need it to jump out at me more than the very subtle highlight that I currently see. I have this problem with other mac apps sometimes, but have the worst problem with pages. I searched through the forums, my apologies if this is already answered. Any help would be deeply appreciated.

When you use the Find dialog that window remains the active one so that the highlight in the document, which is not the active window, appears gray. If you switch to the document window, the highlight color should then appear as the color you have set in System Preferences > Appearance.
If you're wanting to find successive instances of something, switch back to the document window & use ⌘ G to move to the next instance.

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Using Lion 10.7.2 and Safari 5.1.1.
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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 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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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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Change highlight color in pages

Hey guys and gals,
Would anyone happen to know whether changing highlight color in Pages is possible, and if so - how?
I searched all over and found no satifsying answers.
Thank in advance!
Eran

It looks like the Highlight (background) color can only be yellow.
The best work around I can find is to change the text color itself which may work like a highlight of the text (like red, green or blue) which makes it stand out. Maybe that will help?
Format Inspector (the brush) > Style > Touch the Size and Font item > Color > swipe to see options.
Note even there you can't go beyond predefined colors but you can make text stand out.
ivan

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Oh! I understand now. See screenshot below. It's called "Character Fill Color":

Find feature Highlight Color and End of document alert

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.
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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,
Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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I am trying to find out if there is a way to change the Find Highlight color in office 2013.
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