Questions tagged [highlighting]
A means of attracting attention by means of a visual prompt.
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Excel conditional formatting highlighting different cells in range
I need to setup conditional formatting to highlight any cells in the range that are not equal to the first cell. I have attached 2 pictures the first is how the data is typically entered and I have ...
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How to find a "Copy link to highlight" menu in Vivaldi?
Chromium introduced a feature to create a user urls anchored to arbitrary text in page that user highlighted.
In chromium it is available in right mouse button menu. But I cannot see it in Vivaldi (...
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In Microsoft Outlook (2016), how can I highlight only today's elements, for single and series appointments
In Microsoft Outlook (2016), how can I highlight only today's elements, for single and series appointments?
I learned (here and here) how create a rule that highlights single elements that start today,...
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Highlight rows with identical data in Excel
I have a number of rows within a large spreadsheet that have some identical rows I would like those rows highlighted but only if every cell on the row matches, if random cells from different rows ...
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How to highlight all occurrences of string in notepad++ user defined language by defining it as keyword?
Can we define in Notepad++ user defined language a keyword which if contained in any string will be highlighted automatically?
eg. keyword in defined in language
Actual file should highlight like
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Windows: manually remove Start Menu current highlights
Not asking about how to disable the "Highlight newly installed programs" option. I'm looking for a way to keep this option enabled and instantly remove all current highlights, either one-by-one or ...
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How to Highlight all the same words along with comment in adobe or foxitreader?
I'm reading a PDF about c# programming.I'm not a native English speaker.so,I need sometimes dictionary for finding translate a word. for example,I want to know what is meaning of concern once time ...
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Highlighting in Foxit Reader
When highlighting text in Foxit Reader, it introduces spaces in between the letters and highlights letter-wise since the last update.
Screenshot attached for you, on other pages of the document the ...
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Scanning and Recognizing Highlighted Text
This question was asked on an Adobe Acrobat forum. I am posting here since I am looking to solve the same task, but don't require that the solution use Adobe Acrobat.
Is there a way to print a PDF: ...
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Highlighting Not Enabled in PDF That Allows Text Copying and Searching (Win7)
I have a PDF of a technical paper, and I would like to highlight portions and make notes. However, neither of those tools are enabled in Adobe Reader when I open the file (using Windows 7).
I can ...
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Change MS Project 2010 task text color by flag field
I want to change the text color (at least) for tasks that deliver a document. I setup the custom field "Flag 18" to show whether this line item is a document or not. I can change the gantt bar color ...
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How do I delete highlighted syntax in Notepad++?
I have just started learning HTML in Notepad++ and I am playing around with the tags a lot. When my cursor is inside of an open or closed tag both are highlighted automatically in purple. I was ...
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Show CSS colors with BBEdit?
Can BBEdit show the actual color inline in a CSS or SASS file? Some text editors when you type the following will give the #3399FF a highlight of that color (in this case blue). This can be helpful ...
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Simple document highlighting in Vim
I am looking for a filetype= argument that will format or color document
constructs such as lists, headers and sub headrs.
Particularly I want the filetype plugin (or syntax plugin) to interpret
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How to highlight my currently focused monitor (in multi-monitor display)
I have added a second monitor and am now working in a multi-monitor display (in Windows 7).
I have a constant problem with window focus, where I'm looking at one monitor, doing something with the ...
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Cross compare data between 2 workbooks
I'm trying to cross compare 2 data in 2 different workbook. Then, I need to find the missing data between the 2 and make a separate new, updated list. However, I only need to update the data if there'...
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Is there a way to keep the selected row highlighted when the window loses the focus in Excel 2010?
When I'm using Excel 2010, and I have a certain row selected, if I then tab away to another window or sheet, the row/cell that's highlighted is no longer visible. This is really annoying when looking ...
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Outlook 2010: Color highlight email text with color in inbox for high priority email
In Microsoft Outlook 2010, is it possible to highlight an email to a different color if it's more important? I notice that when email is flagged in the recipient inbox if the sender marks the email ...
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Microsoft excel 2010 - highlight duplicate values in multiple columns
I have been looking at a lot of help articles about how to highlight duplicate values, but I can't find one that does exactly what I am trying to do.
I was hoping to highlight cells when the value in ...
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How to use Photoshop or other software to make this kind of picture?
Here is the pic:
Make one part stand out by making the other part grey.
How to do that in Photoshop or other software?
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How to highlight 3 consecutive cells w/ a 0
I want to highlight cells when the row has 3 consecutive (or more) 0s. I only want to highlight cells with a 0, and only if there are at least 3 consecutive zeroes. The cell values are from a formula.
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Is there a quick way to clear URL Text Fragments' highlighting on the page?
For instance, when I follow a google link to the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definiteness#:~:text=In%20linguistics%2C%20definiteness%20is%20a,not%20(indefinite%20noun%20phrases).
It highlights ...
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Excel Highlight Cells Greater than
I am doing a price comparison of various items with last year and this year.
so in column F i list current price and Column I with previous price. I want to highlight the cells which has higher price ...
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How to access highlighted text with pbcopy?
How can I "catch" text that has been selected (highlighted) via shell script? It was suggested to use pbcopy. The script would be idle in the background and when a certain key combination is pressed ...
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Use Word Find-Replace to Highlight Many Instances of the Same Text
We used to be able to use Find-Replace in Word 2010 to highlight all instances of a specified text string. The steps were simple:
In Find, type the text.
In Replace, select Format > Highlight.
Either ...
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Automaically highlighting text in yellow after copy text in Word
I'm using Microsoft Word from Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013. With Ctrl + V I can copy highlighted text in Word. Is it possible to automatically highlight text in yellow (or any other color) ...
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How do I highlight particular rows based on a custom list of dates?
I'm building labor tracking spreadsheet that has every day of the year in it. Some of those days are paid vacation days. I would like to highlight the rows of those particular dates (not a range), ...
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Outlook: add a specific word to be highlighted as an error
When writing a mail, I am used to misspell the name of a colleague, I therefore would like to have an error Highlight, when writing wrong.
Do you know how to add a specific word to be highlighted as ...
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Highlight Message in Outlook 2013 Message List
I would like to be able to right-click (or equivalent) a message in the message list and be able to highlight it in the list. With a large collection of messages in a folder, zeroing in on the right ...
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Restore previous Vim search term?
Is it possible to save/restore Vim search terms in a map?
For instance, I have the following in my .vimrc:
map ,/ :s/^/\/\//<CR>
If I have turned on highlighting (:set hls) previously in the ...
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Highlight cursor after changing buffer in vim
While using vim I have trouble finding my cursor quickly after entering another buffer, especially if I have many splits open.
I fixed this by writing a function which is called by an autocmd when a ...
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How to highlight a bad character by default?
I write Markdown files (*.md) in normal text-mode and again and again use the wrong single-quotation char "´" instead of "`" -- which confuses my markdown processor (note: just the single symbol, ...
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Highlighting duplicate column-pairs in Excel
Example, this is the data in Excel:
1 2
2 2
3 4
3 4
3 3
2 2
2 2
1 2
The rows which have consecutive duplicate column-pair values (in bold font) should be highlighted:
1 2
2 2
3 4
3 4
3 3
2 2
2 2
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How to use conditional formatting based on a different column?
Looking to format a column background color using conditional formatting based on the integer value from a different column. Where or how is the second column referenced?
Bing AI, copilot, says:
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Removing Windows PowerToys' Mouse Highlighter artifacts from screen
This is a question and answer pair for a problem I've endured for a couple of weeks and couldn't find an answer on the web.
PowerToys v0.78.0
Microsoft's PowerToys has a useful Mouse Highlighter ...
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Windows 10: While highlighting text it ends up getting drag and dropped before I can finish highlighting
I'm using Windows 10 and am finding myself in a very frustrating situation. I'm hoping it's just a setting I accidentally turned on, but I cannot find a solution or good description of exactly what's ...
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Why Sublime Text is suddenly NOT HIGHLIGHTING the selected text until i release the mouse button?
I am assuming that I inadvertently pressed a key command that changed a setting, but I cant find it.
Using Windows 10, when I drag to select text, there is no highlighting until I get to the end and ...
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How to highlight all cells that has been sum up
Imagine I have 4 cells A1, A2, A3, A4
I summed A1 to A3 in cell A4
Is there any formula or conditional formatting that will help highlight Cell A1 to Cell A3 by selecting Cell A4 without clicking on ...
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Highlight range when press another cell
If countif example "done" range example from A1:A10 and result appear in cell B1
If result =4 .
I want when click B1 .. the cells in range that contain "done" highlight and color
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How to highlight something in one text so that it's highlighted in all other opened texts (Notepad++)?
If I am searching a whole process, in 2 opened texts and the process revolving between 1st text to 2nd text. When I am highlighting something in 1st document , it is not highlighted in 2nd text.
Is ...
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Highlighting similar text between two Word files
I have two Word documents and I want to highlight the text in common on file 2. I have the below macro (which is supposed to highlight any text strings with more than 4 words in common between the ...
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Color highlight stdout of a debugged/launched process in vscode
I am using VSCode as a main IDE. When I'm launching (or debugging) my developed software, which is usually a console application (be it either, c++, java, or whatever) I'd like to see its stdout ...
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Conditional Formatting Not working (maybe pilot error?)
Excel Version 16.68.
I want to compare numbers in Column D to a Reference Number and use Conditional Formatting Formulas in Column E to highlight the corresponding cells.
I use Formulas because the ...
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Highlight a cell when information in that cell's row is duplicate in 2 of it's columns
I'm looking for a conditional formatting rule that would highlight a cell if data in that cell's row is duplicated in more than one column. Specifically for this sheet, I want the cell in column B to ...
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highlight row with different colors after date is entered in different column cells
We have a spreadsheet that tracks items by date in different columns. Item sent in column L, we would like it to be one color. but once the second date in entered column R. I am needing the row to ...
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How to revive cleared highlighting in Notepad++
In Notepad++, I highlighted here and there where I needed.
Then I wanted to clear one of them, but mistakenly cleared all highlights.
I don't remember where I highlighted, so it is impossible to ...
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Get rid of automatic context menu in Edge? [duplicate]
I compulsively highlight text as I read it, and MS Edge (yes, I use Edge) pops in an annoying little context menu automatically. Is there any way to disable this?
I'm using Edge Chromium 97.0.1072.62
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How to make highlighting text in WinDjView permanent?
I study my university e-books by WinDjView program and I made lots of "highlight text" writing notes that is visible only by holding mouse on it. Now I see that if I copy the same file (book ...
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How to drag conditional formatting (only) across columns using relative reference values
In Excel 2016, I have multiple columns of data, with 2 reference cells above each setting upper/lower limits. I want to highlight all cells in all columns which are not within their respective limit ...
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Change Selection Highlight Color in Microsoft Visio O365
I now Visio O365 installed, and I have a question: Is it possible to change the color of the highlighted area when doing a Ctrl F to search for something?
I have tons of information on multiple pages, ...
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