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Oct 14, 2026 3:30 PM UTC
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Highlight text effect for InDesign

It doesn’t give me the option to pick InDesign for a feature request (bug maybe?) but I’d love to see a text effect to highlight text. Right now, designers everywhere use underline options and have to manually add spaces to simulate a highlight effect. I think this would be a very easy effect to program, especially when the highlight text effect is very in right now.

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    jane-e
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    Oct 23, 2026 12:40 PM UTC

    ​@kelly_5757 

    Instead of posting to the InDesign board on the Community Forums, post your feature request in User Voice where the team will see it and others can upvote.

    https://indesign.uservoice.com

    In the meanwhile, use a very thick yellow underline with a baseline shift to push it up on top of the text. Create a Character Style.

    Jane

     

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    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    Oct 14, 2026 3:34 PM UTC

    post this in the id forum, https://community.adobe.com/indesign-669

     

    and change your title slightly to avoid a duplicate post error.

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    Participant
    Oct 14, 2026 3:35 PM UTC

    Thanks!

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    kglad
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    Oct 18, 2026 2:26 PM UTC

    you’re very welcome.

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