Highlighting Text in Quark

[Virgo Nightingale]

Is there a way to highlight text in Quark? I know I can use the Rule Above to highlight a line, or a portion of it, but that's not quite going to cut it. I believe it can be done in ID by setting the properties for a 'strikethrough' but this project is already nearly done in Quark, it's a little late to start over. Any ideas?

[Exodus]

I'm not sure I'm following you here. Could you explain what you want a little more?

[Virgo Nightingale]

My client wants certain words within a body text to have a pale box behind them, like someone highlighted it, so these particular words will stand out from everything else.

PS: In ID, you can change the settings of the underline style (not the strikethrough) for this effect.

[Jimeda Fork]

You could just make a box, color is and and put it behind the desired text.

I know this isn't what you meant, but it will work.

[Exodus]

Highlight the text you want highlighted then

Go here:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/8966/box1cj7.png

Then modify the settings to get the look you want here:
http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2146/box2tx4.png

Hope that helps!

[Virgo Nightingale]

That's exactly what I was trying to avoid. This workbook is currently 75 pages (and will be expanding exponentially) and most pages have at least 3 highlights. Every time the client sends a substantial enough edit, everything moves and the boxes don't stay with the text they're supposed to highlight. That's why I was hoping for a better way.

[Exodus]

I don't know of one VN... :( That's just one of the many reasons I like InDesign better.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ex: That changes the color of the whole box. Is there something else I'm missing?

[Exodus]

Actually click and drag on the word or words that you want highlighted (In a sense... highlight them). Then go to modify and change your color and blending options.

[Exodus]

d'oh! Wait a sec...


(It's been awhile since I've pancaked with Quark)

[Virgo Nightingale]

That 'modify' thing changes the property of the box the text is in, not the text that's highlighted. I found a way to make a custom underline that would work the same as it does in ID, but the underline appears over the text instead of beneath it. Crapola. I have to do this the hard way now.

[Exodus]

You could do it by making a separate text box. Then modify the color of the text and it's position. By doing this I came up with this result:

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/139/quarkcrapsr6.png

[Virgo Nightingale]

Ex, I don't know whether to laugh or smack you... :D

[Exodus]

Just trying to help! ;)



:D

[Virgo Nightingale]

I know, thanks for trying!:)