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Anonymous
July 11, 2011
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Text Highlighter

  • July 11, 2011
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Seriously, can nobody figure out how to make IND highlight text ie word-style? I have 700 different body text figure references, 70 different authors with varying ages and eyesight and bold/italic just doesn't cut it. How hard can this be?

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    Correct answer di_ny

    Hi,

    The easy down and dirty is here: http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/create_a_yellow_highlighter_style_in_indesign.html.

    Diane

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    di_nyCorrect answer
    Inspiring
    July 16, 2011

    Hi,

    The easy down and dirty is here: http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/create_a_yellow_highlighter_style_in_indesign.html.

    Diane

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    Anonymous
    July 16, 2011

    Thank you all so much. Seems like such a small thing...but not in the big picture of things. I'm grateful.

    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Legend
    July 11, 2011

    gofigyyer,

    Do you mean InDesign when typing »IND«? If yes, why did you post here and not in the InDesign forums ? If you do this, don’t forget to tell the readers which version of InDesign you are talking about?

    If »IND« is something else, please explain it, at least I don’t get it.

    - Michael

    PS: I don’t think it is hard.

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    Anonymous
    July 11, 2011

    InDesign CS5:

    No I mean when I'm typing plain old body text in a text frame, I want to Highlight several words of text the same as if you had used a highlight pen on a hardcopy. I understand I can use a style and turn the text bold, italic, red, etc. - I want the background behind the text colored (without creating a text box, cell or some other "object". And I responded here because when I did a search on the forum for "text highlighting" it told me I should use this forum. My apologies if this is the wrong place.

    Pariah Burke, in his book, "Mastering InDesign CS5," says that to make figure references stand out - you can apply a highlight effect behind the reference (ie, Figure 8-213, to aid you in finding the right locations to place figures in lengthly text documents. I can't figure out how to do that. As much as I hate Word, it has a one-click text highlight button that makes text look as though it were marked with a highlighter.

    thanks, gofigyer

    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
    Legend
    July 11, 2011

    gofigyer,

    As InDesign is a software for high-end desktop publishing and not a reviewing tool, the solutions is not apparent. But you can do this:

    1) For each background color you create a new Character Style; you can define a keyboard shortcut for your styles and thus apply them with ease.

    2) In the Character Style Options window define a solid underline of width = font size + 4pt (try yourself), select the desired color, and adjust the baseline if needed.

    Go ahead, and please visit the InDesign forums for all questions regarding InDesign.

    - Michael

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