Managing Highlights
Use the 
Highlight tool to
mark fragments in your document using various colors. This is especially useful when
you want
to mark sections that needs additional editing or to draw the attention of others
to
particular content.
To watch our video demonstration about using the Highlight tool, go to https://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/Highlight_Tool.html.
Using the Highlight Tool
You can find the Highlight action on the main toolbar, in the menu, or in the Review submenu of the contextual menu
of a document. You can also choose the color to use for the highlight or choose to
Stop highlighting from the same menus.
To highlight content, follow these steps:
- Click the Highlight icon on the toolbar.
Step Result: The highlighting mode is on and the cursor changes to a dedicated symbol.
- Click the small arrow next to the Highlight icon and select the
color that you want to use for the highlighting.
- Select the content you want to highlight. To mark multiple parts of a document, press and hold Ctrl (Meta on Mac OS) and select the parts you want to highlight.
- To exit the highlighting mode, press Esc, click the Highlight icon, or start editing
the document.
- Either select the text you want to remove highlighting from using your cursor, or press Ctrl + A (Command + A on OS X) if you want to select all of the text.
- Click the small arrow next to the Highlight icon and select
No color (erase), or right-click the highlighted content and
select Remove highlight(s).
- To exit the highlighting mode, press Esc, click the Highlight icon, or start editing
the document.
Note
Review View
The Review view is also useful for managing highlights. In this view, the highlights are presented in a compact form, in the order they appear in the document, along with tracked changes and comments. The following actions are available in the contextual menu of each highlight in the Review view:
- Change Color
- Allows you to change the color of an existing highlight by selecting the new color from this menu.
- Remove Highlight
- Removes the selected highlight.
- Remove Highlights with the Same Color
- Removes the selected highlight and all others that have the same color.
- Remove All Highlights
- Removes all highlights from the document.
Highlights XML Source Code
The highlights are stored in the document source code as processing instructions that contain information about the color:
<?oxy_custom_start type="oxy_content_highlight" color="0,128,255"?> The highlights are stored<?oxy_custom_end?>