'Find' Option in Pages only uses a translucent highlight

The 'Find' option in Pages now only uses a translucent highlight and so it makes it impossible to see where the words are that are highlighted 99% of the time.How can this be altered, please?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Mar 6, 2024 3:46 AM

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Posted on Mar 6, 2024 4:11 AM

The current version of Pages v13.2 on macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 uses yellow and gray highlights for all found words. Gray is not translucent, and a click of the forward button on the Find panel moves to the next found item that receives a yellow selection. There is no changing the Pages Find/Replace color choices.


These Find/Replace selection colors have existed since Oct 2013 when the first of the new generation of Pages (v5) was released.

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Mar 6, 2024 4:11 AM in response to Adelaide_Australia

The current version of Pages v13.2 on macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 uses yellow and gray highlights for all found words. Gray is not translucent, and a click of the forward button on the Find panel moves to the next found item that receives a yellow selection. There is no changing the Pages Find/Replace color choices.


These Find/Replace selection colors have existed since Oct 2013 when the first of the new generation of Pages (v5) was released.

Mar 6, 2024 7:29 AM in response to Adelaide_Australia

Wow, something very weird just happened. After 12 months of translucent rectangles for the Find option, they just suddenly went yellow! I have no idea if this is. First I opened an older document from 2022 and all highlights were yellow; so to test it, I opened recent documents and now the Find option is also yellow for the most recent documents.

Mar 6, 2024 7:13 AM in response to VikingOSX

My MacBook Pro used to have yellow (10.12.6) and then one day after 5 years of ownership there is no colour and I have to stare at the screen for ages looking for the edges of the translucent rectangle which sometimes help me find the words I am looking for. But often I can't see it at all -certainly not easily. Just because one has an older once perfectly working system does not mean one should have to upgrade. I would love to know what happened.

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