Highlight is not always black and white.

[baldoldfart@adobeforums.com]

When I highlight a word or words, I want to keep the text black and choose another color for the highlight background. Possible?

[DavidT]

Please elaborate: is this simply on-screen, each time you select text or do you want stuff printed with a highlight?

The first I think is not possible - it might be a system-level thing.

The second can be achieved in various ways, such as using underlines, filling frames etc.

[Mike_Rempe@adobeforums.com]

I think he means when you highlight black text, the text becomes white with black boxes. I have never seen a way to change the black to another color.

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

You don't get black, you get the inverse of the background color. Of course, most of the time, that is white and so most of the time you get black.

Because InDesign has to enable you to work with text on any kind of colored background, it needs a strategy that will work with anything. So, you can't change the highlighting because it needs to have control over what happens to give you this more important flexibility.

Dave

[Mike_Rempe@adobeforums.com]

I figured he meant typing on a blank background and not on top of a color. I guess maybe if you used black copy on a white background only, like a 400 page novel, changing the highlighted text color could be a preference, but to what color though...Pink?...yikes.

[baldoldfart@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for all of your interesting responses. Let me clarify: I often want to move a word or two for balance or impact. I want to look at the "whole picture" of my page to get the optimal position. I want the temporary screen highlight to be less obtrusive (No, not pink) so that I can see the overall balance without a big black blotch. In older versions of Quark, this was possible and I learned to use it a lot. Newer Quark also has the same inverse highlighting and I have learned to deal with it by selecting, moving, unselecting and repeating until I liked the position. Not so efficient. I was just hoping that this new program might offer a little more control over my work environment.

[Gerald_Singelmann@adobeforums.com]

I was just hoping that this new program might offer a little more control
over my work environment




And it does offer one rather nice thing: you can open a second window on your document with its own display settings.
Select and alter your text in one window with all guides and frame edges active.
See your changed text immediately in the second window in preview with no guides or highlighting or obstruction.