If you need to highlight several lines of text, changing the mouse into a highlighter may be a helpful alternative to selecting and highlighting individual lines. The Toggle Style Override Highlighter feature is awesome because it lets you find local formatting really quickly. To remove highlighting, select the highlighted text, then click the Text Highlight Color drop-down arrow. The text near the bottom (the paragraph that has a blue vertical bar to the left, just outside the text frame) has paragraph-level local formatting (such as a different indent, drop cap, or something like that). In the first image above, the text in blue highlighting has character-level local formatting (such as a different font, size, leading, color, style, and so on). However, if you apply a character style in the Character Styles panel, that is not local formatting. If you change the first line indent of a paragraph, that’s local. For example, if you select some text and change its size in the Control panel, that’s local formatting. These toggles let you highlight text in a document (so you can copy it, for example) or select. Remember that “local” formatting is any formatting over and above the paragraph style. Preview has become the Godzilla of PDF editing programs. When that is on, InDesign highlights any text that has local formatting applied to it. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.
