Highlighting text in a table

I want to highlight text (colored band) in a table. Not able to do so. The highlighting icon goes off when the cursor is on the text in table. It reappears when the cursor is outside the table.

Hi Fruhulda,
Thanks.
The method shown below also works. But one has to be careful because among the menu options shown is "document color" (icon nos 4 from left). This is the correct one. I had been trying the icon for text color ignoring document color because it reads as if it for the entire document. Just now I tried the document color and it worked as a highlighter after the text was selected.

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Im trying to get text in a table have it background shaded a different colour to the rest of the table cell but it doesnt work. No exceptions are thrown does anyone have any idea.
public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,
        Object value,
        boolean isSelected,
        boolean hasFocus,
        int row,
        int column)
        setFont(table.getFont());
        this.setText(value));
        this.selectAll();
        this.setSelectionColor(new Color(0,0,255,100);
        return this;
    }

The answer is similar to what someone else asked recently for highlighting text in a JFormattedTextField cell.
class MyFocusListener extends FocusAdapter
public void focusGained(FocusEvent e)
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
public void run()
selectAll();
Put that in your cell editor or its base class. You can change the color or whatever you want. I think the problem is a timing thing where normal focus processing is interrupting your changes. So give the focus processing time to run with this Runnable triggering your processing to occur on the Awt thread (as is proper) after the system is doing whatever it wants to do. Let us know if it works for you.

Unable to highlight text in ibook table (on Ipad ) created with ibook author

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The way i enter text onto table:
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export as ibook
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Hey All,
This seems really silly but when I create a table inside iBooks author and preview it on my iPad, I cannot select text inside the table to highlight, search, or make notes on. It's just a static table. In the book I'm creating, there is so much info inside tables that students will want to highlight and use as study cards so I've got to find a workaround. I know you can highlight text added inside a shape and I've thought about making a bunch of rectangles and fitting the text in there but it's much more work for me and seems like a "mickey mouse" way of doing things. Does anyone have any better solutions I could try?
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Try deleting it and redownloading. If that doesn't work, try using the Report a Problem link on your receipt.

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I want to know the shortcut for deleting text from a table on a macbook pro with the latest version of Microsoft Word. I want to keep the table and it's formatting but I want the current information deleted and don't want to have to do this cell by cell. I highlight all the text I want deleted and then.........???????
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Removing overset text in empty table rows (InDesign CS5.5)

I have some overset text in a table that appears to be empty rows. I've opened story editor so I can remove the text, but I can't select the area that's overset (the red lines). How does one remove this overset stuff if you can't select it.

Have you tried adjusting the height of the row to reveal the over set text?
Or try placing your cursor in the cell in question and just hit the delete key...Sometimes invisible characters like column break can be accidently added.
Or perhaps, highlighting the entire row and hit the backspace key.

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Is it possible to add new columns with format "Text" once a table is linked to a form in Numbers for iPhone or is it impossible and thus a serious bug?(Rating stars and numeric vales seem to work.)
Those bugs happen both for new speadsheets as well as existing onces, like the demo. When you are in the form only the numeric keyboard shows up.
Pat from the Apple Store Rosenstrasse/Germany approved that it looks like a Bug during the Numbers Workshop I was in: It is not possible to add new columns with format "Text". I reported the error for Version 1.4 but there is no update nor do I get statement of understanding the issue.

Hi Knochenhort,
I see what you are talking about now. Without knowing how the program actually works, I think this is what's going on:
When you add a new column to an already existing table (with already existing formats), the new cells come already formatted like the previous column. So when you add a column to the end of the demo table, the cells are already formatted like stars, and when you add a column to the beginning, they're already formatted like number.
I think this is why it's different when if you add columns to a table with blank (unformatted) columns. In that case, the new cells aren't already "tainted" with a set format, so you can change to text format without issue.
It seems like the problem is that you can't format cells that are already formatted as "number" as "text" format (even if it doesn't look like they are, because they are blank). IMO, this is a bug! This is why you don't see this issue when adding columns to a new table, because the new cells don't already come with a format.
To workaround, you can highlight the body cells after adding the new column, and delete the cells. This will "clear" the formatting, so you can then go in the inspector, format them as text, and the correct keyboard will pop up.
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Cannot highlight text

Hello, I am using dreamweaver 8. I placed text into layers.
When I upload it to my website it will not let me highlight the
text properly. This is my website and will show you what I mean.
www.handcraftedcandy.com. Try to highlight the text and see what
happens.
I am assuming its because I used layers but I have spent most
of the day reading articles to fix this and am still out of luck. I
have tried to place text in the tables and than place the table in
a layer but I still have no luck. I also tried to change all layers
to tables but I keep getting errors. I am sure I could find the
answer but it will take me days of reading to find it.
Thank you in advance to the genius who can provide me with an
answer.

Absolute positioning seems to cause text selection problems
in IE from what
I recall. If you're concerned about it, you'll have to
reconsider your
layout and the use of AP divs.
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> Hello, I am using dreamweaver 8. I placed text into
layers. When I upload
> it to
> my website it will not let me highlight the text
properly. This is my
> website
> and will show you what I mean. www.handcraftedcandy.com.
Try to highlight
> the
> text and see what happens.
>
> I am assuming its because I used layers but I have spent
most of the day
> reading articles to fix this and am still out of luck. I
have tried to
> place
> text in the tables and than place the table in a layer
but I still have no
> luck. I also tried to change all layers to tables but I
keep getting
> errors. I
> am sure I could find the answer but it will take me days
of reading to
> find it.
>
> Thank you in advance to the genius who can provide me
with an answer.
>

How to highlight text in JLabel????

I m writing code for find functionality(similar to ctrl+f )..
I have a JTable with some of its cell contains JLabel...
I want to highlight some part of text from JLabel using using tableCellRenderer
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It works, if Jtable contains string but not for any JComponent(like JLabel, JPanel, JCheckBox etc..) ..
Please help me out for this....
NOte: ---
I m posting some part of code that i have used to highlight string in a JTable cell..
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suyog

I am posting my code that i am using for highlighting text in JTable...
But this code is not working, if cell contains JLabel...
Can you please suggest me any solution to work this code for JLabel with plain text content & with hyperlink (formatted using HTML tags), with out affecting to its original functionality
(I am not getting what cramick want to suggest... )
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           *    condition to execute addHighlight..
           *    Here i am using above mentioned Vector & all the things
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Suyog

Highlighting Text & Auto Text Options

I've recently migrated from MS Word to Pages, and I'm determined to make this new relationship work. In Word I used its highlighting text (as with a real highlighter--yellow, pink, etc.) feature, as well as its Auto Text feature, in which I had a number of prescribed, hyperlinked comments. (I'm a teacher, and I would auto text things like, "comma error," which would then be linked to a web page about comma errors.
Can anyone help me discover ways to do both of these in Pages? Also, is there anything for Pages like MS Word's macros?
Thanks in advance,
Brad Carpenter

Welcome to the forums, Brad.
There is no direct analogue in Pages to Word's highlighting feature. However, you can use the Comments feature to add specific comments to a specific piece of text (with the advantage that the comments can be easily hidden, since you are not changing the characteristics of the actual text). Simply select a bit of text and click the Comment icon in the toolbar, or from the Insert menu select "Comment". The selected text will highlight in document, and a comments box will appear to the left of the page, in which you can type whatever you want. In the comments box you can select whatever text you want and make it a hyperlink, by going to the Hyperlink Inspector. Unfortunately, there is not an easy way to automate the creation of a hyperlink, at least as far as I know.
There are plenty of third-party applications that will let you store and add snippets of text easily to any Mac document, including Pages. These include TypeIt4Me, Butler, and even Quicksilver, which has a fanatical following and may be more than you need for this kind of task. I'm sure others here might be able to suggest other apps.
One caution, however: If you intend to be sharing documents with others, they must be using Pages themselves to take advantage of these features. Unless your students are also using Pages, these workarounds won't really help.

Is there a way in Pages to show and print all the added "comments?" (those you add by highlighting text) I'd like students to be able to view my comments on printed version of their papers.

Is there a way in Pages to show and print all the added "comments?" (those you add by highlighting text) I am a teacher, and I would like students to be able to view my comments on printed versions of their papers. I know word displays the comments off to the side of the document, and those comments can be viewed all at once and printed alongside the document.

There doesn't appear to be a way to print conmments in either Pages or Numbers in the Mavericks versions.
Jerry

The text in the tables is hazy when printed in the new version of pages. How can I get this to the same clear text as before?

In the new version of Pages, the text in the tables are no long clear and sharp as before, they look embedded on all print outs. How can I change this.

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Hello
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Regards
Anthony

Hello
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Hi all, (sorry if this is similar post from others).
I'm trying to highlight text from when it is selected by the mouse, I want it to work by first I click a button to go in "text highlighting mode" then I select the text by pressing the mouse at the start of the selection and then releasing it - voila highlighted text..
I ain't got it right here, anyone know the fix?
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hi,
can you send me the hole source too figure your problem out.
thx

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