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Creating a text highlight with padding

Creating a text highlight with padding

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Creating a text highlight with padding

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- [Narrator] This weeks type tip is about creating a text highlight. Specifically it's about a work around to address a short coming of this technique. First just a little bit of background. So I want to be able to highlight a word or a string of words and then come and apply a character style to them like so. The benefit of this of course is that if I change my mind about the color of the highlighting, I can come and edit the character style and the highlight is actually created with an underline and just change the color right there and it will update in place. Now here's the shortcoming of this approach. While you can use your underline options to determine the weight and vertical position of the highlight, what you can't do is add any padding either side of the word. So it just looks too tight to the letters. And I wish there were better news but I can't find a real way around this. Let me just show you where the highlight is created. So in the first instance I selected a word and…

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