Dreamweaver Help: Code Coloring specific tags

Hello everyone,
I would like to set some custom Code Colors on HTML tags in DW to help me in recognizing those tags when I open a page in DW's Code View. I was able to find this BLOG post saying that it this is possible in DW by updating some DW preference files; source: http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2009/02/code_coloring_specific_tags.html.. I am a non-technical person so I find it difficult to do the setup. The reason I want this is for me to easily find the text in Code View just by noticing the code color.
E.g. I want this <span class="specialText"> to have a red code color in DW's Code View
I hope there's someone who can guide me on how to accomplish this.
Thanks

Go to Edit > Preferences > Code Coloring > HTML > Edit Coloring Scheme.
In DW, <span> tags have the same color scheme as <p> and <h > tags. I'm not sure if you can change that.
As a workaround for quickly finding all span tags of a certain class, use Find (Ctrl+F), Specific Tag, Find All button. See screenshot:
Nancy O.
Message was edited by: Nancy O. Not Special tag; Specific tag.

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