1) Add a keyboard shortcut for Text Highlighting analogous to Bold (Cmd-B), Italic (Cmd-I) 2) Enable Text Highlighting tool to stay-on permanently when the button is click. Click the Highlighting button again to turn off - similar to Preview application in Mac OS. May 14, 2018  shortcut to highlighting text Is there a shortcut that highlights text in Word notebook? Mac / Unknown/other; Answer GR. Guruprasad Ra Replied on August 27, 2011. There is no such default shortcut key for this. The command you are looking is at.

I have done a bit of searching and cannot find a keyboard shortcut for this command in Microsoft Word 2007. I am not talking about simply making a text selection. (that would be a no brainer) What I would like to do is select some text and toggle the background color so it appears as if it were marked with a yellow highlighter.

Is there any way to do this with a keyboard shortcut?

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You can set them in Word Options, Customize, Keyboard Shortcuts.

Edit: Actually, it's already Ctrl + Alt + H.

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You can set them in Word Options, Customize, Keyboard Shortcuts.

Goto 'Tools' menu and select 'Highlight' option

Assign keyboard shortcut to it like 'Ctrl+H'

You can easily create your own macros for that, using the Word Macro recorder.

1. highlight a word or phrase
2. Start the macro recorder (Tools - Macro - Record new macro)
3. assign the macro a name, define if it should be stored in Normal.dot or the current file, assign a keyboard shortcut (after all this, you'll close the dialogs and end up with a recording icon)
4. format your selected text
5. Stop the macro recorder

First, you make sure you have the right color. Then highlight with your curser and press. Ctrl+ alt + H . After that, you can just highlight it with your cursor and tapped «Ctrl + alt + H ».

Use Alt+H+I to select the color to start with and then keep using that color with Ctrl+Alt+H till the time you need to change the color.

Andrea

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You have three choices:

1. Your current process
2. Create a new paragraph style named Highlight
   1. Assign keyboard shortcut in Paragraph panel.
   2. Save in a template for future use.
3. Keep your yellow highlight in a separate Pages document
   1. Format menu : Copy Style (option+cmd+C) in source document.
   2. Format menu : Paste Style (option+cmd+V) in current document's selected text to receive highlight.

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That is it. No shortcuts, until Apple wises up that this is so stupid on the Advanced Options menu. As it has been nearly four years, Apple is slow to understand user productivity requirements.