How do I highlight text in Pages?

How do I highlight text in Pages - none of the menus, nor the 'Help' function seems to help...

It's tough searching for something when you can't guess the terms to use. It's called a "background color." You can choose a color from the format bar.

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How do you highlight text in Pages v5?

Hi guys,
Was struggling a bit with the recent changes from Pages 5 and was wondering how we could highlight text (using different colours etc)?
Thanks !

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

How do you highlight text in Pages for iPad? The document I want to create and highlight is a pages document

I am trying to create a document in Pages for iPad and want to highlight various bits of text but can not find a function in the inspector for this. Can anyone help,please?

Hi stuartdj,
I'm not finding a way to highlight text as one can do with iBooks (hold and swipe for black text, background yellow for example).
One option is to actually color the text itself.
Select the text, then in Style tools, tap the Font name at the top which shows the Text Options sheet where there is a Color option. Would changing the font color to Red, Green or Purple accomplish your goals?
If you do want black text on a colored background (highlighted) it would need to be text in a text box where you can change the fill (background) color. Style, Style Options, Fill. But this is not inline text and doesn't flow like just coloring the font itself.
ivan

How do I highlight text on pages 5.5.2?

Im trying to highlight specific parts of an essay question, however I cannot find an option to do so. Somebody please send help.

The ability to place a true highlight behind text is on the Advanced Options pop over, not in the Insert menu as the Highlight menu item. You can apply this text background fill color by either clicking on the color well color itself, or by clicking the rainbow color chooser button adjacent.

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?

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.
I found there is one quick key version, but doesn't clearly explain how to change highlighting colours. How to get into it.
I have to explain this to my 80 year old mom, who we told to get a Mac because it was easier!
So if anyone has it laid out step 1, 2, 3, that would be helpful, because it's not clear to me either.
Thanks!
Apple - please to a quick fix for this one, it should be the same as changing the size or the font or like bold or italic. Simple, clear, fast and doable..... for anyone!

TO Peter,
Thanks for the list. I had found it in LibreOffice, tucked away in the Background tab of the Character pane opened by the Character... menu item in the Format menu, and named "Background Color. A few steps further down than in Pages. Apache OpenOffice has it in the same place. But both also have a hilight icon in the toolbar.
I didn't fin highlighting or Color fill in Text Edit (v1.8). Might need a further search.
But this well-equipped party of (one) oscurantist did find a shorter path to highlighting text in Pages '09, cleverly hidden in plain view! See the image below.
TO hscortez,
I'm aware that changing the text colour is not highlighting.
But YeOldMacFan pointed out how to change text colour AND how to change background colour of text, using Character fill, found in the Advanced Options (Pages 5) or the More (Pages '09) tab of the Text Inspector.
Character Fill fills the space around the character with the chosen colour. As shown above, it's essentially the same effect as dragging a hiliter pen along a line of printed text.
Unfortunately, whats shown above is the Character fill well on the format bar of Pages '09—right out in the open like the highlighter pen button in LibreOffice, and presumeably in MS Word. I don't have Pages 5 (avoiding it until a few more of the missing features arrive), but I do note that Pages for iOS offers highlight as one of the options in the contextual menu that appears when a block of text is selcted.
The process appears to be:
tap twice to select some text.
drag the handles at each end of the selection to adjust what's selected.
tap Highlight in the menu that has appeared on the screen.
One thing missing appears to be colour choice. The default is a 'hiliter yellow'. I didn't see a way to select a different colour.
"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.
Regards,
Barry

Highlighting Text In Pages 4 and 5: How To/Best Methods?

Hello Fellow Macers:
I need advice on the best way to highlight text in Pages 4 and 5:
I use and prefer Pages 4.3. Yes, I have Pages 5.2, and I find that using it good for some things (dictating into a document), but not so good for others - highlighting text.
For example, I read tons of documents and like to make notes, comments and especially highlight text according to a color-code scheme that I have used for years.
For those who use Word, this process of highlighting text is pretty straight-forward:
You highlight your text and then simply click your highlight box on the Word toolbar (choose a default color, usually yellow) and you're done. If you need to use another color, just use the pull-down, as seen above. The drawback in Word - no Orange, or sectrum option.
But let's face it - Word as a program is just too much. As someone who has used every word processing program under the sun, I find Pages excellent. It does what I need.
However, I find highlighting text in Pages clumsy. Here's what I need to do to highlight text in Pages 4.3:
Go to your toolbar, and then choose a highlight/background color. It's more labor intensive then Word, above, but you do have the option of more colors.
Then there's this method, where basically you get to simply use yellow as your color:
IMHO both are clumsy methods compared to Word, but have become even more so in Pages 5.2....
Lots of clicks to achieve simple color highlights.
Am I missing something, or is there a simpler way, in either Pages 4 or Pages 5, to achieve the above results???
Any suggestions appreciated!

Dear VikingOSX:
As Ed MacMahon once said (before your time?) re Pages 5 Character Fill Color: "You are correct, sir!!"
The gear icon IS where the function that I'm talking about is located. Still, it's annoying.
Q: Why?
A: Because from a work-flow perspective as someone who is highlighting it makes no sense. We in the Western world read and write from top to bottom, left to right. Making a mark on a doc should follow the same flow.
You should not have to keep looking over to the right side of the doc to find your function. Logically it should be at the top (e.g., toolbar), on the left, or perhaps some contextual pop-up option.
Furthermore, it's more "labor intensive" from this point of view: In Word, once you set the color (which, granted, you may need to change from time to time IF you, like me, use multiple colors as part of your highlighting workflow), you just click the box after highlighting the text - 1 click vs 2, and possibly 3.
The "richer color" part of my comment was just to note that a flaw, in my view, of Word's basic scheme is that:
1) It lacks an Orange. And we've all used an Orange highlighter at somepoint, right? Or perhaps, you were like me in High School and threw them instead. But you get the point...and
2) Having a wider pallatte available as an option - which you do in Apple's scheme - is nice. I use color coding/highlighting to make notes and save time. The colors tell me what's important, what's next important, key terms, etc. Also, for example, if I wanted to outline my highlighting notes, the color scheme (which has a heirarchy based on color, right?) allows me to do this quickly because it's already there.
As for the Dictation function working on Pages '09/4.3 - again, you are correct, sir! And that's great to know. I had tried to use it before when the new Pages 5 (hitting fn twice on Pages 4.3) but it didn't activate. I tried it after reading your response and Bingo! It's Alive! So thanks for that tip.
Your keyboard shortcut scheme is an interesting idea, and I may try it as an experiment. My intuition is that it will not work as straight-forwardly as Word's toolbar pull-down will, but I might be wrong. We'll see.
And yes, I do use Pages '09 (4.3) instead of Pages 5 for exactly this reason (see my discussion)
Great reply! Thanks!

How can I highlight text

How can I highlight text in PDFs on adobe.ccom?

Hi hervorheben,
If the file is saved on Acobat.com, you need to download it and open it in Reader (or Acrobat) to use the commenting tools (including the Highlight tool). To download a file, log in to your account at https://cloud.acrobat.com/files, select the file that you want to work on, and click the Download link at the top of the page.
Best,
Sara

How do you Blackout texts in Pages?

How would you blackout text in Pages ? almost like white out but obviously in black.
OS X Yosemite 10.10
Pages-5.5

Follow these steps for Pages v5.2.2 (v5.5.1 in Yosemite).
Quit Pages
System Preferences > General > Disable Use LCD font smoothing when available
Open your document in Pages
Select the text to black out. (assumption: your text is black)Advanced Options (gear icon adjacent to underline in Styles panel)Character fill color is black
Click elsewhere in the document to deselect, and reveal the now redacted text.

How do I place text from Pages in InDesign

How do I place text from Pages in InDesign?

You will need to export the text from Indesign as either .rtf or .doc files and import those.
You can also cut and paste but I assume you have already tried these options and are not happy with the result, but haven't said why.
Peter

How can i highlight text in the Adobe Difital Editions?

How can i highlight text in the Adobe Difital Editions?

You have to remember that Digital Editions was never designed to have 'text
editor' capabilities. BTW: Bluefire and Overdrive also have such
limitations. Put in another frame of reference, DE presents you with the
ebook, as you would be presented with a physical printed book.
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How can I highlight text in a document scanned in pdf format?

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

If it wasn't OCRed in Acrobat then you can only use the non-text commenting tools, like the Square or Polygon. Press Ctrl+E to open the Properties bad and you could make it look like a text highlight annotation.

How can I highlight text in iPages with a 'virtual' fluorescent marker

How can I highlight text in iPages with a virtual fluorescent marker?

The text highlight option is the little box on the toolbar with the "a" and a diagonal line through it (That is the default transparent highlight option).
Peter

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.
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.
This is some text
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 This is some text above.
Thank you,
Jon Lutz
Promoter Power LLC

Hi,
Looking at your screen shot, you didn't add the css.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<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">
.greybg {
background-color:#999999;
</style>
</head>
<body>
This is my text
</body>
</html>

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.
This is some text
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 This is some text 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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