HIGHLIGHTING A WORD

Hello back to you again Tom I am sorry if I didn’t make myself clear.

I have downloaded iBooks Author not to create a book or manuscript but to make clear documents that will pick-up my spellings (dyslexia!)

I also have Pages-

In ‘Pages’ you can go to the top menu bar and select ‘insert highlight’.

I ‘get it‘ in ‘iBooks Author’, how to shad/shadow/background colour’, a word; however, I can’t find out how to highlight a word.

The link you sent me through was for iBook’s.

What I would like to know is; in iBooks Author how to highlight a word..

I hope that is more understandable for you?

I look forward to your further response.

Thank you in advance

Kind regards

Corinne

Thanks for your response Tom.. I also thank you for your help and support.

It was suggested, in the Apple Store, that I download iBooks Author.. As it would help and assist me.. On reflection, perhaps not the best of recommendations!! 😢

Maybe i should look into downloading ‘TextEdit’ instead?😕

Could you help me out (again) please and tell me how I do this (download 'TextEdit')? Sorry if I am being a nuisance! 😟

Your screen shot/picture is precisely what I want to do in iBooks Author..i.e Now is the ‘T I M E’ ; the word ‘time’ highlighted in it’s own right and not as a fill.. 🙂

I appreciate iBooksAuthor, is for people who want to write a book.. However within a book, I would have ‘thought’ the editor/writer would be able, with certain words, highlight them, as opposed to fill/shad/background colour...😕

There dose not appear to be a highlight facility/selection in iBooks Author to highlight a word just to be a able to do ‘fill’; which I will learn to live with and get used to.

Unless you can come-up with an answer or solution?

I look forward to hearing form you again.. and thanks again

Kind regards

Corinne

Hello once again Tom.. Thanks again for your help over this..🙂

I generally have large and long documents.

I was attempting to use iBooks Author, as a replacement, to Office for Mac (2011)- (I found any form support from Microsoft dreadfully appalling!!)

I have also tried ‘Pages’, however, that application didn’t have ‘bookmarks’ to take me to certain and specific points within in a document.

Table of contents was then advised, within Page, but I couldn’t get my head around that! It was too daunting. 😕

Then iBooks Author was recommended (Apple Store) – But can’t highlight a word,,

I just want a seamlessly easy application to produce documents..

It’s been a very frustrating time for me.. And I think I am getting confused and muddled!! 😕

Also, I have taken a look at EditText and think it is a bit too basic, for my needs (and doesn’t seem to include a highlight!)

Instead of attempting to solve and resolve the challenges that iBooks Author and Pages seem to be throwing up at me; I should do as you suggest and stay with Microsoft’s Office for Mac 2011 or Pages.. And then attempt to find another alternative to ‘table of contents’.

I thank you for ALL your help guidance and support.🙂

Kind regards

Corinne

I apologise Tom, when I said in my response to you yesterday, at 08.22am (GMT); that was ‘precisely’ what I wanted. I got muddle and confused!! 😕

It was NOT what I was looking for (again I’m sorry about that). As that is altering/changing the colour of the text.. Which I know how to do..🙂

It seems to me, that fill and highlight are the same thing.. in iBooks Author

In word (Microsoft for Mac 2011); this is fill/shading (little oil pot)

In word (Microsoft for Mac 2011); this is highlight (ABCI-)

Now, when I’m looking at them together, they look exactly the same.. So I will use the ‘background’ colour’ in iBooks Author, to highlight/fill any words..

It’s just getting used to the tweaks..

You have been exceptionally helpful and resourceful to me and I REALLY do appreciate it..🙂

Once more I thank you, for going the extra mile and being extraordinary patient with me.😉

Kind regards Corinne🙂

Hello again Tom.. 🙂

Now your completely flummoxed me .. 😕

I don’t understand what you mean by “But is pdf ok for the final format of your work? “ …I thought ‘PDF’s’ couldn’t be edited??!! 😕

Could/would you please clarify for me?

I also don’t know what an ‘.iba’ file is?😕

I have saved a couple of ‘test’ documents/files, of iBooks Author to my desktop.. I’ve gone back into them and I appear to be able to keep making additions/changes to the text..

Although one (on my desktop) is ‘coloured in’ (orange and white-and in the white IBA ) while the other is colourless..! Any thoughts?

I have taken screenshots of the two iBooks Books files/documents for you, which I am referring to (see below)

Sorry that I am such a nuisance and pain

I’m really am a computer dinosaur!! And not very computer literate/savvy!😊

Kind regards Corinne🙂

Thanks once more for your response Tom..🙂

I would never send an iBooks Author file in it’s entirety, to anybody else.. Whatever format it was in..

I only would use iBooks Author for my own personal use, as an aid/editing tool..

I use Word, Microsoft for Mac 2011., Pages and (in hopeful anticipation) iBooks Author, because of my Dyslexia.. 😊

I have to compose my text and correspondence, before I am able to send it; then I ‘copy and paste’ my compiled ‘text’, (without any, hopefully, typo’s/spelling mistakes!)

I was hoping iBooks Author, would pick-up in its ‘proof reading text’ capacity, any errors and blunders!.

I then send the previously ‘copied and pasted’ text, (from Word, Pages or iBooks Author), as an e-mail to someone or in a formal letter.

Basically, in a nutshell; I am only using it as a proof-reading/checking tool, as a crutch/support/prop for my Dyslexia!!

I have already copied and pasted something from iBooks Author onto an e-mail and it works!! Eureka!!🙂

I know it’s a long winded, roundabout and convoluted way of doing things.. However, it works for me!!

If only I could get my head around iBooks Author!!

I’m afraid I must be your biggest nightmare and dunce!!😊

Once again I thank you for your continual help.. Support and encouragement

Best regards

Corinne🙂