Highlighting shortcut

[Rob McKaughan]

Dumb question: is there a keyboard shortcut for highlighting the selected
text with current highlighter color? (i.e. like you were using bold or
italics or such).

Couldn't find anything in help or on the forum.

- Rob

 

[Chris H.]

Take a look under Options and launch the Formatting Toolbar. The
Highlighter is there, and all you need do is select the area you want to
highlight, and then click/tap the Highlight tool button. There is a choice
of 12 different colors, which you can pre-set.
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[Rob McKaughan]

Thanks for the quick response, Chris.

Take a look under Options and launch the Formatting Toolbar. The
Highlighter is there, and all you need do is select the area you want to
highlight, and then click/tap the Highlight tool button. There is a choice
of 12 different colors, which you can pre-set.

I've been using the button from the formatting toolbar, but that still
requires me to use the mouse. I'm looking for something that doesn't require
me moving my hands off the home-row. Something that behaves like ctrl-b for
bold. Is there such a thing?

I'm a keyboard shortcut freak and love the fact that onenote has just about
everything available on via a shortcut. Reaching for the mouse/stylus slows
me down.

Thanks,
- Rob

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP]

Thanks for the quick response, Chris.


I've been using the button from the formatting toolbar, but that still
requires me to use the mouse. I'm looking for something that doesn't
require
me moving my hands off the home-row. Something that behaves like ctrl-b
for
bold. Is there such a thing?

I can't give you exactly that. What about a keyboard shortcut that lets
you turn on the yellow highlighter off just a WinKey+H combo? Selecting
the current highlighter color is a little tricky - it only happens off a
toolbar button and the location of that button can vary wildly.

If you really, really, need that current pen selection (as opposed to just
"yellow" (or any other color)) then I might be able do it, but it would
require you to make a few sacrifices. Like turning off adaptive menus and
toolbars, locking the toolbars in place, never moving the formatting
toolbar, etc.


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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote/Outlook
Operations Coordinator
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