Hightlighted Text 1

[MrBelfry]

Hey folks

In Indesign cs2 is there any way to set the background colour of some text to make it appear highlighted. I don't want to change the background colour of the frame but just part of the text.

Thanks

MrBelfry

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[Crea]

Not sure if there is a quick way but what I do follows:
1. Select the text you want highlighted.

2. Open the Character pallet (command T on Mac).

3. Open the pull out pallet and select underline options.

4. Check underline, turn on preview, increase weight to about 3 pts above your text size then reduce offset until your "highlight/underline" is behind your text. (change the "text color" to better see this preview)

5. Deselect

 

[MrBelfry]

Cheers

And a star for your troubles to

Thanks

MrBelfry

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[grafixenter]

That was good.

Wish InDesign had more artistic stroke effects like the brushes of Illustrator. It would make a nice effect.

Thanks Mr.

 

[Ekwoman]

And...if you're going to use this a lot, simply make a Character style of this styling. For down and dirty application, you could just use the eyedropper to apply this style to all of the text you want "highlighted.