Hot do you highlight text in Pages?

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Hot do you highlight text in Pages?

I am trying to highlight specific text in Pages, like one word or one line. I found how to highlight the entire paragraph, but I only want to be able to highlight one line or a couple of words at a time. Is there a way to highlight specific text in Pages instead of the entire paragraph? Thanks

Macbook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Macbook Pro 15" Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Posted on Apr 17, 2007 8:09 AM

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SteveLamb0

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Apr 17, 2007 8:43 AM in response to dbraud

Hi

I double-clicked in middle of word & it highlighted it, triple-click highlights paragraph. For one line, would suggest left-click & drag.

Steve

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dbraud Author

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Apr 17, 2007 8:48 AM in response to SteveLamb0

Thanks for the tips. I was actually referring to highlighting text with a highlighter for noting importance. I know that word lets you highlight text and make it different colors like yellow or green. Is there a way to highlight specific text, (not the whole paragraph)?

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SteveLamb0

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Apr 17, 2007 9:06 AM in response to dbraud

Not exactly sure if it's what you want but you could change the text colour by double-clicking the word, opening the colour palette then crayons & selecting the colour required.

Or leave the text black, click on Inspector, click on Graphic Inspector, click shadow & choose colour (e.g red), degrees 350, offset 0%, blur 1pt, opacity 100%. This gives black text with a red background. Adjust these settings to suit.

Steve

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Tulse

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Apr 17, 2007 11:35 AM in response to dbraud

Pages doesn't have a built-in highlight function like Word does, unfortunately.

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Apr 17, 2007 7:47 PM in response to dbraud

Something similar would be to highlight the text then go into the Insert > Comment menu. Then, not only will highlight the text, you'll get that nifty reminder of why you highlighted it in the first place.

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