Shortcut for highlighting text?

Spenstar:

Sorry, I didn't see this before, although apparently others missed it as well. But, I'm confused as to how this shortcut or Insert>Highlight works. How do you modify the color? When I tried to use it, the highlight defaulted to a very pale yellow color. Yet in the Format panel, choosing Style, the little dropdown w/the gear (next to bold, italics, underline), shows that there isn't a highlight color.

If I try to change the highlight from the pale yellow, it appears the color is changed behind the yellow. The yellow remains and small bands on the top & bottom of the yellow highlight show the color that I've chosen to change (pink).

This makes me think that the pale yellow highlight isn't the same as a regular highlight. Is it possible to change this color or to choose another default? Even choosing another default wouldn't necessarily work for me as I often use multiple highlight colors in a document.

I appreciate that you've pointed this out to me, but I need a better understanding as to how this works.

Thank you!

Well, that's disappointing. I was truly hoping there was an easy work around that I didn't know about or an easy keyboard shortcut I could set up. I don't work w/styles, I've always found them cumbersome. That might not really be the case but most documents I create are fairly straight forward so except for a bit of highlighting or something similar, I've never bothered learning how to use styles.

Thanks very much for you suggestions. It's hard to believe Apple still hasn't simplified some of the basic tasks in Pages.

Thank you very much, I will definitely take a look at the above examples. It's a shame that Apple doesn't make it easier to do something as basic as highlighting. While I'm glad to be rid of Microsoft, I have to admit there are a couple basic features of Word that are easier to use than in Pages.

I need to evaluate it so as to determine if the way it is set up will serve my purpose. Most of my documents are not shared and I don't have a need for "regular" track changes. It's probably because I do so little document sharing that I don't like Track Changes.

I have multiple non-shared documents, both in Pages & Numbers, that need various areas highlighted and in more than one color. I know how to accomplish that directly using the Format pane but there are a lot of steps involved and I've been hoping there was an easier way to do this.

That is why I will "evaluate" the highlighting function in Track Changes but based on spenstar3's initial posting, it doesn't appear to meet my needs.

Sadly, I have a newer version of Pages. I'm surprised to find that this previously was a feature and it has been removed. I'd think it was an often-used feature.

Thank you!

120 features? I'm at a loss as to the correct word to use: amazing? appalling? ludicrous? self-defeating? tragic?

How very Microsoft-like. 😖

I understand, that's why I'm not certain it will be useful to me. But I do plan to take a look at it to evaluate.

Thanks!