Highlighting

!! Opening the Highlight Tool

 

The Highlighting tool can be opened using *Tools | Highlighting*. If it is opened by a simple click it will open in a fixed pane (cannot be re-sized) on the left side of the screen.

The Highlighting tool can be opened from the *Tools* menu.

 

It will open in a fixed pane on the left side of the screen by default, \\ but you can drag it to any location on your screen, just like a resource.

If you want to give the Highlighting pane custom dimensions you can drag it from the Tools Menu or by its tab to any location on your screen, just like any other resource.

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!! Applying Highlighting

The tool looks like this (you can expand or collapse sections by clicking on their titles).

 

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To highlight some text, select the text you want to highlight, and click on a Highlighting style. Pressing Ctrl+K will also apply that style.

 

You can keep the Highlighting tool open in your layout by dragging it from its default location on the left side. And you can assign keyboard shortcut keys to simplify the process (see the next section).

You can keep the Highlighting tool open in your layout, and assign keyboard [[*shortcut keys* >> # Shortcut keys]] to simplify the process.

 

!!!! Erasing Highlighting

To erase highlighting, select the highlighted text and click *Erase* (on the upper right of the Highlighting panel).

Right click part of the highlighted text, click "Selection" on one side of the Context menu \\ and then click *Delete Notes and Highlights* on the other side.

 

Or right click on part of the highlighted text, click "Selection" on the shaded side of the Context menu and then click *Delete Notes and Highlights* on the other side (/used to be "Remove annotations"/).

To /erase/ all, or any part, of the highlighting select the /required/ text \\ and click *Erase* in the toolbar of the Highlighting panel, \\ or use the keyboard combination *Ctrl+Shift+K* (Mac users: *Shift+Cmd+K*).

 

Or select the highlighted text and press the keyboard combination *Ctrl+Shift+K* (Mac users: *Shift+Cmd+K*).

If you erase highlighting in the /middle/ of the text you will have two *separate* highlights.

 

Use *Erase* if you want to remove any part of the highlighting e.g. if you remove highlighting in the middle you will have two separate highlights.

 

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!! Shortcut keys

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!!! Add Styles

Right click on your new palette, or click the down-arrow and select "Add a new style".

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Give the new style a name and then proceed to modify the various attribute sections, and (optionally) associate it with a Label. \\ The preview area will show you what your style will look like as you enter attributes. \\ When you have finished click *Save* in the header.