Mac Shortcut For Highlighting Text



The next group of keyboard shortcuts allow for quickly highlighting and selecting elements of text: Select text to beginning of a line – Shift+Command+Left Arrow Select text to end of a line – Shift+Command+Right Arrow. List of keyboard shortcuts that you can use with Adobe Acrobat. Learn & Support Get Started User Guide. Mac OS Action. Sticky Note tool. Text Edits tool. Current highlighting tool. Cycle through highlighting tools: Highlighter, Underline Text, Cross Out Text.

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How does Apple get some really simple things so wrong? It astounds me. I would have thought highlighting text in ANY text based application—such as Apple Mail—would be a no-brainer in OS X. Mail is at version 6.1 or 6.2, and there’s still no easy way to highlight text with a colour. Because most pure Mac applications share the basic Cocoa framework provided by OS X this issue of highlighting is something you’ll likely come across in many places.

For instance, I am composing this post in MarsEdit. It also has no way to highlight text because it shares the same text editing engine as Mail, TextEdit, etc. Without further delay, here is the solution.

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CORRECTION: Okay, I have just noticed the current version of TextEdit (v 1.8 (301)) on my OS X does support highlighting. Previous versions did not. I am not sure when that was added in, and I am also not sure why it hasn’t been added into the rest of the text apps such as Mail. Hopefully it will eventually. This will, at least, make it easier for us to define a custom style ourselves. It cuts out one step, which was to copy and paste highlighted text from another source (such as Microsoft Word or highlighted text from this article) in order to define a style with it.

Shortcut

How to add highlights to Mail 1. Open TextEdit. If you have version 1. Plain text app for mac. 8 (301) it should look like this: 2. Type something (anything) into TextEditor. Select what you have typed. Using the Highlighter button, add a highlight using the Highlight Color button as shown in the above image. Now go to Format > Font > Styles (as shown in following image) 4.