How do you highlight text in document in Pages

How do you highlight text in document in Pages

but Pages is NOT a 3rd party app.  it's an application that's programmed by apple.  it's supposed to act something like Word in MS office, but that is not at all true. 
choices for editing text, highlighting, et al., like what you find in MS Office Word, should be immediately available whenever you are inside of a Pages document, but that is not the case. 
don't you wish that when you buy an apple app for apple/macs that is supposed to be like a windows something or another that it really is? 

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    Your question is answered in the following post:
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/23519269#23519269

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    Matter of needs and finances.
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  • How do I highlight text in the new Pages?  It's not clear.

    I have the new version of Pages.  And it appears that highlighting of text is an issue.  This is a basic function.
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    "Hopefully, this will make it on their upgrade list. "
    Hope is good, but taking action is useful.
    Pages menu > Provide Pages Feedback > Make your request that this be added to Pages 5. Requests made through Provide ...Feedback go directly to Apple. Comments and questions here are read by users like yourself, and we don't have the ability to change the way the apps work. Not directly,anyway.
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    Barry

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    How do you open a .cwk (the old Apple word processing program) document in Pages?

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  • How can I highlight text in a document scanned in pdf format?

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  • How do I highlight text in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

    HI to all Forum Participants:
    HI to anyone:
    I posted a question on how do I highlight text in Dreamweaver MX 2004, to both the Dreamweaver Development Toolbox General Discussion Forum and the Dreamweaver Extension Forum on Tuesday, 6/16/2009 or Wednesday, 6/17/2009, saying this:
    HI Anyone:
    I have looked under Help and Tutorials in Dreamweaver MX 2004, and I am having a heck of a time finding out how to highlight text in Dreamweaver MX 2004.
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    Thank you,
    Jon Lutz
    Promoter Power LLC
    Email: [email protected]
    And I got this response from pziecana, in the Dreamweaver Development Toolbox General Discussion:
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    HTH
    PZ
    I tried both, and neither worked.  Any other ideas on how to do this?  I cannot believe it is so hard to do this in Dreamweaver MX 2004, highlighting text.  I'm even enclosing an attachment showing how I did this in the <span class="graybg">This is some text</span> above.
    Thank you,
    Jon Lutz
    Promoter Power LLC

    Hi,
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    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>Untitled Document</title>
    <style type="text/css">
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    </head>
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  • How do I highlight text in Dreamweaver MX 2004

    HI to all Dreamweaver extension Forum Participants:
    HI to anyone:
    I posted a question on how do I highlight text in Dreamweaver MX 2004, to both the Dreamweaver Development Toolbox General Discussion Forum and the Dreamweaver Extension Forum on Tuesday, 6/16/2009 or Wednesday, 6/17/2009, saying this:
    HI Anyone:
    I have looked under Help and Tutorials in Dreamweaver MX 2004, and I am having a heck of a time finding out how to highlight text in Dreamweaver MX 2004.
    Do any of you know how to do this actually in Dreamweaver MX 2004?  Say I wanted to highlight this text, all in Yellow:
    This is sample highlighted text.
    How would I do it?
    Thank you,
    Jon Lutz
    Promoter Power LLC
    Email: [email protected]
    And I got this response from pziecana, in the Dreamweaver Development Toolbox General Discussion:
    Re: How do I highlight text in Dreamweaver MX 2004
    The simplest way is to use a span and set a background-color for the text you wish to highlight.
    e.g.
    <span class="graybg">This is some text</span>
    css for above -
    .graybg{
       backgroung- color: #666666;
    This would give you a gray background.
    HTH
    PZ
    I tried both, and neither worked.  Any other ideas on how to do this?  I cannot believe it is so hard to do this in Dreamweaver MX 2004, highlighting text.  I'm even enclosing an attachment showing how I did this in the <span class="graybg">This is some text</span> above.
    Thank you,
    Jon Lutz
    Promoter Power LLC

    HI PZ:
    Here is the new Code:
    This is some text .
    I'm trying to highlight this text in yellow or gray.
    Can anyone help me with this?
    Thank you,
    Jon Lutz
    Promoter Power LLC
    This is some highlighted text
    But I still don't see any of the text higlighted in gray in the browser?
    What's up with that?  Man, Dreamweaver is so hard to get to highlight text -
    GOOD GRIEF, Why can't Adobe make it easy?  What a Pain!!!
    Go to http://promoterpower.com/test.html, and you will see what I mean about
    any of the text being highlighted.
    Thank you,
    Jon Lutz
    Promoter Power LLC

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