I have a really important technical documents (bylaws etc) that were originally written in the older version of Pages. Some lines have yellow highlight behind them and now in the new Pages, there is no option in the inspector to get rid of the highlights. We can't even paste a new style over it. I cannot, repeat, cannot take the time to re-do everything. Even cutting and pasting is not working.
HELP!!!
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), Pages
Pages v5+ uses the term “Highlight” for Author comments. If you want to remove your character background (true highlighting) then you need to visit the gear icon next to the font color well. On the drop-down panel, you want Character Fill Color and click in the black color well, then select the red slash on a white background to turn off your current highlighting.
Pages v5+ uses the term “Highlight” for Author comments. If you want to remove your character background (true highlighting) then you need to visit the gear icon next to the font color well. On the drop-down panel, you want Character Fill Color and click in the black color well, then select the red slash on a white background to turn off your current highlighting.
wfellman
To get rid of yellow highlights: Look to tab toward upper left. See number of highlights. Click arrow. yellow bubble will appear with
delete as one of the options.
Click it and your home! Return to arrow as often as necessary unless you can figure a way of deleting all highlights with one click.
I struggled with it also in pages 5.2. There are two types of highlights. One is when you edit, and track changes, you can highlight from edit menu, or you may have done it unintentionally. The only way to delete these highlights is when you move the cursor on the highlighted part, a pop-up window asks if you want to 'accept' or 'delete' changes. If you 'accept' the highlight goes away. There is another type of highlight which is already shown by someone under this thread, in the 'format' drop down window the sign next to underline of the text, where you can undo the highlight.
Hope this helps
Setting the character background fill to "None" should do what you want.
Pages > Edit
There is a menu option available " Remove Highlights and Comments" in Edit menu dropdown.
Backup before trying.
For prompt help, post your question in the Pages community.
I am using Pages 5.2. Make sure to click on the Format icon at the top right of the page. It should turn blue when the menus for that icon are open. Select the text where the hightlight should be removed - click and drag to select. Next make sure to select the Style tab. Look for the Character Style heading. From the drop down menu next to it, select None. The hightlight should disappear.
Why in the heck do we have to Google something that should be as simple as choosing an option in the toolbar? I don't write professionally so most of the time I just use "Bean" which easily allows me to add or remove "highlighted" text. This ought to be available as an option in the toolbar!
" I am talking about working on a Word document..."
Are you working in MS Word then? If you were working in Pages, you would have been working on a Pages document. Pages can import Word documents and can Export a Pages document to a Word format file. Importing includes translating the Word document from its native format into a Pages document. Exporting includes translating a Pages document to MS Word format before saving it.
The question is about removing the highlight colour in Pages. cntrl+spacebar may remove colour highlighting from the text background in MS Word, but it did not do that in my tests with Pages 4 and Pages 5, as described in the screen shot of my test document below:
You are correct in stating that control-spacebar does not open Spotlight.
The keystroke combination to open Spotlight is command-spacebar.
You err in 'thinking' the most-updated version of Pages is 9.
The current version of Pages is 6.x.x
You can find the version of any Apple application in the first item of the Application menu when that application is running. When Pages is the active application the menu is named Pages, and its first item is About Pages.
Regards,
Barry
For this who may have this problem in the future, the solution is SO simple
Ctrl + Spacebar
Highlight text thats been yellow-fied in Pages; press Ctrl + Spacebar and it's all back to normal. No need for further faffing.
Pressing control + spacebar on recent OS X/macOS systems launches Spotlight, and has nothing to do with removing anything, much less real highlights in Pages '09 v4.3, or any release of Pages v5 or v6.
Testing before you post is also SO simple. Do it, as the community guidelines suggest.
No idea what you are talking about. I am talking about working on a Word document and my method works 100%. I have MacOSSierra 10.12.3 - is there a new modern version? Pressing Ctl+Spacebar DOES not launch Spotlight on my machine when word is closed. . I have the most updated version of Pages - I think this is 9. Please don't patronise people who know what they are talking about. I did not need to Test - I simply offered a solution that I use ALL THE Time!
Retorting that I am patronizing you is absurd, considering that you finally admitted that your post was specific to MS Word, when the entire reply threads that preceded you were addressing a Pages v5 highlight removal issue. In that context, how was your post less confusing, or even relevant?
The control+spacebar keyboard shortcut has no effect within any release of Pages for highlight removal. The latest version of Pages '09 is v4.3. The latest version of Pages is v6.0.5.
Caute3 wrote:
Please don't patronise people who know what they are talking about. I did not need to Test - I simply offered a solution that I use ALL THE Time!
Clearly this is not a case of "patronising people who know what they are talking about".
Yes you do need to test, then you will discover that oddly Pages is not Word and you are giving bad and irrelevant advice.
Peter
Viking
I know that we get a lot of confused ex PC users, and we do the conversion in our heads, but ctrl spacebar doesn't launch Spotlight. That's cmd spacebar.
It just does nothing to either commented Text nor highlighted Text. Just gives a beep.
Peter
What's interesting is that the majority of question are asking how to get rid of highlights on Word. I posted a comment then got trolled. No wonder most rational people hate Macs and Mac users. I won't bother commenting again because clearly most Mac users are only interesting in their own opinion and not actually in helping or supporting otherss. Good Grief!
Can't delete yellow highlight in Pages
