Hi, I'm currently making text boxes (background of box is grey) and using a black font. I would like to be able to highlight (by highlight I mean give the text a background colour) a certain word(s) using another colour. Is there any SIMPLE way to do this? Programs such as microsoft word allows words to be highlighted, but I haven't been able to find such a thing in quark yet. I've only been able to come up with the solution of creating another text box, but this is too time consuming and troublesome.
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How to highlight text?
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I don't think Quark has this facility. There are workarounds, but as you've noted, they are time consuming and less than ideal.
If you've got, say, 12pt text, you could double-click the Orthagonal Line Tool and give it new default properties. Click modify, then change the width to 12pt and the color to the highlight color. Make sure Runaround is set to Nono. Go back to your document and use the line tool to draw over the text you want to highlight. When you're done, click on the text box and bring it to front (Item > Bring To Front). You'll also have to change the background of the text box to none.
It's still a clumsy method, but it might speed things up a little for you.
If you've got, say, 12pt text, you could double-click the Orthagonal Line Tool and give it new default properties. Click modify, then change the width to 12pt and the color to the highlight color. Make sure Runaround is set to Nono. Go back to your document and use the line tool to draw over the text you want to highlight. When you're done, click on the text box and bring it to front (Item > Bring To Front). You'll also have to change the background of the text box to none.
It's still a clumsy method, but it might speed things up a little for you.
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One doing it which I have done for headers which I want a background bar in the back is by…
Under your paragraph settings set a Rule Above, say for 12pt text make your line weight 20pt. Make the Line colour whatever you want.
Then under your character settings change your font colour to whatever you want and then make your baseline shift something like 14pt (For 12pt text) make it a style and your good. Should produce what your looking for though you would have to adjust settings for different sized text, different fonts may have different ascenders and descenders you would have to fiddle your linewidth and baseline to get it how you want.
See if you can get it to work that way..
Cheers
Under your paragraph settings set a Rule Above, say for 12pt text make your line weight 20pt. Make the Line colour whatever you want.
Then under your character settings change your font colour to whatever you want and then make your baseline shift something like 14pt (For 12pt text) make it a style and your good. Should produce what your looking for though you would have to adjust settings for different sized text, different fonts may have different ascenders and descenders you would have to fiddle your linewidth and baseline to get it how you want.
See if you can get it to work that way..
Cheers
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