Moving text and highlighting together

[Ron]

I'm working on a desktop configuration with OneNote SP1. When I move text
that I have highlighted using the "highlight" menu item, the highlight
remains behind. It is awkward and cumbersome to have to erase the old
highlight and create a new one.
Is there some way to merge or move the typed text and the highlight together?

Ron

[Erik Sojka]

Are you using the "Highlight" tool on the Formatting Toolbar, or one of the
highlighter pens found on the Standard Toolbar (also found under Tools |
Drawing and Writing Tools | Pens)? I'm guessing the latter.

If the former, the highlighting should stay with the text, as it does in
other programs, since that is really just formatting that has been applied to
the text.

You mention you're on a desktop PC. The "Pen" tools are really only useful
on a Tablet PC, and as you've seen create problems when used on a non-Tablet.
What you think of as a "highlight" is really a penstroke that is treated
independently of the text on top of which it is applied. If you turn on
Tools | Options | Display | "Show notes containers on pages" you should see
that your text is contained in one rectangle and your highlighter in another.

Post by Ron
I'm working on a desktop configuration with OneNote SP1. When I move text
that I have highlighted using the "highlight" menu item, the highlight
remains behind. It is awkward and cumbersome to have to erase the old
highlight and create a new one.
Is there some way to merge or move the typed text and the highlight together?
Ron

[Ron]

Erik,

Thanks. I thought I had used the highlight tool on the formatting toolbar. I
did use it when I re-highlighted the text. After your post I went back to
check and - sure 'nuf - the highlight moved with the text. Now I know that
there are highlighters, and then there are "highlighters," and the two don't
behave the same.

Ron

Post by Erik Sojka
Are you using the "Highlight" tool on the Formatting Toolbar, or one of the
highlighter pens found on the Standard Toolbar (also found under Tools |
Drawing and Writing Tools | Pens)? I'm guessing the latter.
If the former, the highlighting should stay with the text, as it does in
other programs, since that is really just formatting that has been applied to
the text.
You mention you're on a desktop PC. The "Pen" tools are really only useful
on a Tablet PC, and as you've seen create problems when used on a non-Tablet.
What you think of as a "highlight" is really a penstroke that is treated
independently of the text on top of which it is applied. If you turn on
Tools | Options | Display | "Show notes containers on pages" you should see
that your text is contained in one rectangle and your highlighter in another.

Post by Ron
I'm working on a desktop configuration with OneNote SP1. When I move text
that I have highlighted using the "highlight" menu item, the highlight
remains behind. It is awkward and cumbersome to have to erase the old
highlight and create a new one.
Is there some way to merge or move the typed text and the highlight together?
Ron

[Andrew Watt [MVP - InfoPath]]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 21:47:01 -0800, Ron

Post by Ron
I'm working on a desktop configuration with OneNote SP1. When I move text
that I have highlighted using the "highlight" menu item, the highlight
remains behind. It is awkward and cumbersome to have to erase the old
highlight and create a new one.
Is there some way to merge or move the typed text and the highlight together?
Ron

Ron,

If Erik's interpretation of the problem you are having is correct, you
might want to have a look at the following:
http://www.tfosorcim.org/archives/000245.html

Andrew Watt
MVP - InfoPath