Highlighting selected text in OneNote

[Michael.T40]

In OneNote, I'd like to be able to select a word or block of text and then
click on Highlight and have it highlighted automatically (and neatly). The
present approach of applying highlighting as if by using a highlight pen
controlled by my mouse results in, with my unsteady control of the mouse, in
a very messy result.

With other programs, one can highlight a word, sentence, or paragraph simply
by first selecting it and then clicking on a highlight icon. Presto. It's
done. Neatly!

Wish OneNote would do this.

Michael

 

[Chris H.]

Guessing that you're not on a Tablet PC, just double-click the word or
drag-select the words or sentence you want highlighted, and then - with your
selection picked - click the Highlight button. The system automatically
will do the highlighting, neatly, for you.
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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

It works the same on a laptop, at least with sp1.

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[Michael.T40]

Chris (and Diane)

Thanks for setting me straight. You know, I tried this, however, multiple
times and it would not work. But then I somehow discovered that there was
supposed to be an icon for highlighting, but it wasn't showing on my screen.
I was clicking on the yellow highlighter pen, instead. And that didn't work.
Once I kept looking for something else, I finally got a highlighter icon to
show up. And now it works just like I had originally expected it to work.
Don't know why that icon wasn't there initially, but now it is, so my problem
is solved. Thank you.

Mike

 

[Chris H.]

Good for you, Mike. Hard to tell from here if you've got all the icons on
the Toolbar.
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