Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 306)

286 Special “Styles” Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More
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This highlight of text prints. It is different from the selection “Highlight Color” that you set in the
Appearance pane of your System Preferences and the background Check Spelling and Find/Replace
Highlight Color you set in the Nisus Writer Pro General preferences as explained in “Set “defaults” for
the application and new files” on page 116.
Background color
You can set a printable background color for any selection of your text. This color also gets saved
and displays in HTML documents.
1. Select the text you wish to add background color.
2. Choose the color you want from the menu Format > Background Color.
Background color only draws in areas actually occupied by characters (excluding indents, line
wraps, etc. though including spaces and tabs).
Remove background color from your text
1. Select the text from which you wish to remove the background color.
2. Choose the menu command Format > Background Color > Remove Background Color
Attribute, or, choose Remove Color from the Background Color tag menu on the Statusbar.
How highlight color and background color differ
Highlight color and Background Color differ only slightly
Figure 309
Highlight color, Background Color and Paragraph Borders with Paragraph Shading compared
• Each has a slightly different handling of newline/wrapped whitespace (as evident along the
right line wrap areas of the text in Figure 309 above).
• Word only recognizes Highlight colors and ignores Background Colors in RTF. It does, however
recognize Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading.