: Applying highlighting formating to text in Adobe Illustrator I'm looking for applying text highlight formatting (that's easily done within Microsoft Word) in Illustrator. Screenshot of highlighting

@Turnbaugh909

You can't apply highlighting like that to a selection of text, but you can add it to an entire line of point text using an appearance effect on a second fill.


Open the Appearance panel (Window → Appearance) and with your text selected, add two fills. One for the the highlight box and one above it for the text itself.
Add a Rectangle "Convert to Shape" effect to the lower fill (you can set a relative offset in the effect dialog to control the "padding").




This doesn't do exactly what you want since it highlights the entire line of text, and it's no good over multiple lines since it will create one large rectangle to cover the whole object... it's also no good on paragraph text since it will draw the rectangle over the whole text box. It can be useful in certain situations though.

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@BetL875

It's not possible for Adobe Illustrator as it hasn't the feature of adding highlighting styles to text. This can be implemented using Adobe InDesign instead.

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