Preview highlight color

Currently when I do a text search in Preview and click on a result, it highlights the text in a light grey, which can be irritating to locate in a page of b&w text. When I highlight text normally, it comes out light blue, the color that I selected in the Appearances preferences.
Anyone know if there is a setting in Preview that I am missing? Thanks.

I had the same problem...then I noticed that when the drawer is selected, the text highlights the color I set in System Preferences/Appearances pane, but when the main part of the window is selected, the text in the drawer goes to that grey color.
It's the exact opposite for the PDF text, so when you do a text search, and click on one of the found texts in the drawer, click on the PDF before looking/squinting for the grey color. The text should pop up in the color you set for the system in the aformentioned preference pane.
Search for text, select text in drawer, Preview goes to text, click on main portion of window.
pressing TAB 1x (ONCE) is quicker and easier, though.
Solved it for me, anyhow.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 2 GB RAM

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Does anyone know if this color can be changed, for example to imitate the easily visible color used by the Firefox find command? There's no obvious preference for this, but perhaps there's something hidden in the preference file?

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I sort of changed mine to Red in 10.4.11 for the same reason.
Quit Preview, paste this into Terminal window & press enter...
defaults write com.apple.Preview AppleHighlightColor "1.0 0.0 0.0"
The values are R G B in 0 to 1 scale.
Start Preview, now do a search, press Tab, the search will show in Red Highlight, but not in the PDF it's self.
Adobe Reader will highlight within the PDF in a better color.
On searching through PDFs, might see...
http://www.smileonmymac.com/PDFpen/
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Hi!
Is there anyway to change the color used to for searched items on Preview? I noticed that you can change the background panel to just about any color using the color picker, but not the highlight color which I think would be far more useful. It is gray--not even my selected color for highlighting in the Appearance Preference. Most of the PDF files that I search have a grayscale background and the gray highlight does not show up. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

yes, it's ridiculous. But your highlight color IS there, it's just that the highlighted word is not in focus at that moment.
Open a text-based PDF. Command-F and type in a term that you know is in the PDF. As you note, it will highlight, but appear to be in gray.
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Very frustrating and un-apple-like.

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drmike789,
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Hey,
You are most welcome
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