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108 Making a text highlighter

108 Making a text highlighter - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

108 Making a text highlighter

One of the most often requested special effects in InDesign, is a text highlighter. You know, like here where it looks like someone has marked up the text with a highlighter pen. Now, it's not hard to get this kind of text effect in InDesign, though it does take a little bit of set up. Here's how you do it. First, select some text. I'll do that by double-clicking with the Selection tool on top of this text frame which switches to the Type tool. Then, I'll simply double-click and then drag over some words. Now the whole key to the highlighter effect is the underline effect, you want a custom underline. Now, I'm going to get that by going up to the Control panel and making sure that I'm in the Character Formatting mode. That's this little A on the left edge of the panel. Once that's selected, I can come over to sort of the middle, and I'll see a T with an underline. Now, if I just click that, it makes an underline. Just a boring plain black underline underneath that. That's not what I…

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