change highlight color in text selection

Emmy Ezzell

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- January 10, 2014 at 9:53 am #66622
  
  Emmy Ezzell
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  I am using InDesign CC in Windows. In layout mode, when I select a block of text with the text tool (to make a correction for example) the highlight color of the selected text is dark blue and that makes the selected text virtually invisible. I’ve searched preferences for a place to change the color of this and can not find it. Anybody know where it’s hiding?
- January 10, 2014 at 11:26 am #66625
  
  David Blatner
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  Highlight color is a Windows preference, not an InDesign preference in CC.
- January 10, 2014 at 5:46 pm #66632
  
  Bob Rubey
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  Thanks David. That one was bugging me as well. For Windows 7 users, go to Control Panel > Personalization > Window Color then in the resulting Window Color and Appearance panel choose Selected Items from the Item drop-down, change Color 1 to something of your choosing, and Apply.
- January 11, 2014 at 12:28 pm #66637
  
  Michael Dodds
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  We regularly scan forms, or film, to use as FPOs when recreating them for a digital workflow.
  Now, with InDesignCC, we can not see through the new text highlight color
  in order to match the FPO type under the new InDesign document.
  Does anyone know how to make the highlight work like in the past – as it should.
  What is the point in making that text highlight color opaque?
  
  MSD
- January 13, 2014 at 7:48 am #66640
  
  Emmy Ezzell
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  https://forums.adobe.com/message/5441567
  
  This is buried pretty deep in the Windows control panel settings but it is the solution to the problem.
  Which is, of course, specific to Windows, so it DOES make a difference.
  
  Emmy Ezzell
- March 23, 2014 at 9:45 am #67711
  
  Shlomit Heymann
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  It doesn’t work for the Mac…
- March 23, 2014 at 10:02 am #67712
  
  David Blatner
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  Yeah, Adobe made an about-face on this… very frustrating.
  Now (in CC 9.2, which was released in January), InDesign on both Mac and Windows I believe, just reverses out the text — like it used to do in CS6 and earlier. No way to change the highlight color.
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