Preview Highlight Colour

Just wondering if there is anyway to change the highlight colour in Preview from the dull grey to something that stand out more?
Not the highlight colour when you select areas with the mouse, the highlight colour you get when using spotlight, then open the document it found, all the highlights are a dull grey, which can be quite difficult to see.
Thanks
Jed

Hi Graham
No, not that preferences, that is fine, it is when using Preview, open a pdf document and perform a search on a keyword. the found referenes to it are highlighted in grey, my normal highlight colour is red. It seems that preview has an inbuilt highlight colour that does not come from system preferences
Regards
Jed

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