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.
Hi Peter,
Whether one has keyboard, or mouse pointer focus, in Finder, Pages '09 v4.3, or Pages v5.6.2, on El Capitan 10.11.6, the control + spacebar keyboard shortcut will open a Spotlight window.
On macOS Sierra 10.12.3, same drill, but with Pages '09 v4.3 and v6.0.5, the sequence has changed to command + spacebar.
Using Apple U.S. full-size keyboard with El Capitan, and built-in, U.S. keyboard on MacBook Air with Sierra.
Apple. 😕
"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!"
The 'majority of question' where? You apparently didn't notice that this discussion is in an ASC community named "Pages" and deals with issues and techniques that involve Apple's word processing/page layout application "Pages."
Prior to your initial post, this thread contained the original question (which clearly stated the document showing the issue was created in "an older version of Pages" and had been opened in "a newer version of Pages") and 11 replies.
Five of those replies offered possible solutions specific to Pages or the the then current version of Pages.
One was a response from the OP saying the first suggestion had not worked as a solution.
Three were 'thank you' posts directed to three persons who had offered solutions that apparently worked for those responders.
The last two made no specific mention of Pages, but were quite clearly on topic, and offering support to others.
No mention at all of Word in any of the posts in this thread prior to yours.
Regards,
Barry
Caute3 wrote:
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!
You are adamant that you are right no matter what.
Look at the top of this page.
Does it say Pages for Mac or does it say Word?
This forum prides itself on fast and accurate answers, not Alternate Facts.
Peter
Just my two penn'orth
Pages 6.0.5 under MacOS Sierra
Select the text with Character Fill Colour Yellow
control-spacebar = nothing but an error sound.
command-spacebar =
Regards,
Ian.
Thanks for the response. We thought that too, but the remove highlights option is grayed out. No go.....
Thank You Viking!! You are the only one with the solution to my problem.
Thanks!
Bless you!!!!!!!!!!!
You have to "select" the area first that you want to remove the highlight from.
Can't delete yellow highlight in Pages
