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Text Hightlighing height inconsistent/too deep
I like to highlight keywords in bullets like so:
But when two highlighted words are above each other in new paragraphs, like "Issuers" and "Acquirers" are here, the text highlight on the to...
To accomplish this, I have sometimes edited the normal state of text and pasted shapes behind the text that looks like highlighting. It would be a bit time-consuming in a lot of places, but for a smaller applications, it works. To do this:
- Create and position the "highlight" shapes on the timeline over the text you want highlighted
- Group and cut them
- Open "edit states"
- Select the normal state
- Paste the shapes using the "paste in place" shortcut (option d?)
- Right-click and send the grouped shapes to back.
- Close edit states and voila.
CONS: if your text changes the state will not move the shapes to match, you'll have to redo it.
The normal state can be edited like any other state, especially helpful when you have a grouped graphic that needs to be triggered. I do it a lot and it's made my life so much easier.
