Highlight text

Just mouse over the text with your alt/option key depressed.

The trick is to create a highligthing style in TextEdit and then apply the hightlighting style in Mail

Open a new document in TextEdit

Type some text and use the background button to create a yellow background

In Format>Fonts>Styles press 'Add to Favorites'

Type a name for the style, for example 'Yellow Highlight'

Now switch to Mail and mark the text you want to highlight. Right click Font>Styles....

Now you can choose the 'Yellow Highlight' style in Mail

This works on Mountain Lion 10.8.2

Where is the 'Background Button' in Text Edit? I'm not seeing it.

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Look at the menu bar of the first picture in my explanation. You'll notice a yellow button with the letter "a" - this is the background button.

Perfect and this is work for me too, but why Apple made it too dificult JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND ! ! !

Thanks

I know this is an old discussion, but I just found it. :-) I've tried this method, but when

I follow Format>Font>Styles... I get no drop-down menu -- I get nothing. There's no way

for me to "Add to Favorites" because I have nothing. What am I doing wrong...?

Using Yosemite, TextEdit 1.10.