<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[How to highlight text?]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">How in N++ do I highlight a few words or a few lines in a text document? This could either be by changing its colour, or by adding a coloured background to it, or in some other way. I find that when I’m looking through a 20 Mbyte log file, and I want to come back to a section to analyse in more detail what’s going on, I often want to highlight it or flag it in some way. How do I do this?</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks - Rowan</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hi, any shotcut button to assign the highlight funtion?</p>
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<p dir="auto">By default, the <strong>Style One Token / Style All Occurrences of Token</strong> commands do not have keyboard shortcuts.</p>
<p dir="auto">But if you use <strong>Settings &gt; Shortcut Mapper</strong>, set <strong>Filter</strong> = <code>style</code>, you can choose any of them and use <strong>Modify</strong> to set a keyboard shortcut for that token-highlight style.<br />
<img src="/assets/uploads/files/1749652855434-1ccdb944-484d-4a28-9bc6-c301a59b0478-image.png" alt="1ccdb944-484d-4a28-9bc6-c301a59b0478-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
<p dir="auto">(In case it’s not clear: <code>Style all using Nth style</code> in that dialog corresponds to <strong>Search &gt; Style All Occurrences of Token &gt; Using Nth Style</strong> [or the right-click context menu equivalent]; <code>Style one using Nth style</code> corresponds to <strong>Search &gt; Style One Token &gt; Using Nth Style</strong> [or the right-click context menu equivalent].  And for further clarification: the <strong>Search &gt; Mark All</strong> that <a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/alan-kilborn" aria-label="Profile: Alan-Kilborn">@<bdi>Alan-Kilborn</bdi></a> mentioned 6 years ago is the same as what’s now known as <strong>Search &gt; Style All Occurrences of Token</strong>)</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/102044</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/102044</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[PeterJones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:45:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:56:10 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ajay-gohil" aria-label="Profile: ajay-gohil">@<bdi>ajay-gohil</bdi></a></p>
<p dir="auto">Hi, any shotcut button to assign the highlight funtion?</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/102034</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/102034</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Farhan Yazid]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:56:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:24:30 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/prahlad-makwana4145" aria-label="Profile: Prahlad-Makwana4145">@<bdi>Prahlad-Makwana4145</bdi></a>  thanks</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92962</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/92962</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Abhay Solanki]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:24:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:04:32 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Here are the steps to highlight your CURRENT LINE.</p>
<p dir="auto">Settings -&gt; Style Configurator</p>
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<p dir="auto">Global Styles -&gt; Current Line Background<br />
Change the Background Color.<br />
In my case I turned it to a dark blue.</p>
<p dir="auto"><img src="/assets/uploads/files/1637273068504-be062026-2806-40f0-99db-f3a8b20c1ef1-image.png" alt="be062026-2806-40f0-99db-f3a8b20c1ef1-image.png" class=" img-fluid img-markdown" /></p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/71428</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/71428</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[mikegonzalez2k]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:04:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:32:34 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">Why do people just keep saying the same things over and over?  Really, if you don’t have something new and different to say, don’t reply and waste the bandwidth of all the readers of this forum.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46093</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46093</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Kilborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:32:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Sat, 10 Aug 2019 05:15:14 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">–&gt; To highlight a block of code in Notepad++, please do the following steps</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>step-1</strong> :- Select the required text.</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>step-2</strong> :- Right click to display the context menu</p>
<p dir="auto"><strong>step-3</strong> :- Choose <em><strong>Style token</strong></em> and select any of the five choices available ( Styles from  <em><strong>Using 1st style</strong></em> to <em><strong>using 5th style</strong></em> ). Each is different colors. if you want yellow color choose <em><strong>using 3rd style</strong></em>.</p>
<p dir="auto">–&gt; <em>If you want to create your own style you can use <strong>style configurator</strong> under <strong>Setting</strong> menu…</em></p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46091</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/46091</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Prahlad-Makwana4145]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2019 05:15:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:12:58 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/ajay-gohil" aria-label="Profile: ajay-gohil">@<bdi>ajay-gohil</bdi></a></p>
<p dir="auto">Except for the context menu part, that’s the same thing I said.  I rarely use the feature, so I forget it is also on the context menu.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/45734</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/45734</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Kilborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:12:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:33:37 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto">To highlight a block of code in Notepad++, please do the following steps</p>
<p dir="auto">1)Select the required text.<br />
2)Right click to display the context menu<br />
3)Choose Style token and select any of the five choices available ( styles from Using 1st style to using 5th style). Each is of different colors.If you want yellow color choose using 3rd style.</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/45724</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/45724</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[ajay gohil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2019 04:33:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:33:47 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/rowan-sylvester-bradley" aria-label="Profile: Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley">@<bdi>Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley</bdi></a></p>
<p dir="auto">In addition to <a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/meta-chuh" aria-label="Profile: Meta-Chuh">@<bdi>Meta-Chuh</bdi></a> 's suggestions, how about <code>Search</code> &gt; <code>Mark All</code> &gt; <code>...</code> which will work on preselected text?<br />
There you’ll find FIVE different colors for your pleasure.  And by using <code>Search</code> &gt; <code>Jump Down</code> &gt; … you can easily come back later.  (Also <code>Jump Up</code>).</p>
]]></description><link>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/44335</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/44335</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Kilborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:33:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reply to How to highlight text? on Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:54:31 GMT]]></title><description><![CDATA[<p dir="auto"><a class="plugin-mentions-user plugin-mentions-a" href="/user/rowan-sylvester-bradley" aria-label="Profile: Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley">@<bdi>Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley</bdi></a></p>
<p dir="auto">if you like to highlight words or sections temporarily, go to the menu <code>search &gt; mark</code>, enter a text to highlight, and press mark.</p>
<p dir="auto">if you have about the same repeating keywords every time, you can create a user defined language at the menu <code>language &gt; define your language &gt; create new</code>.<br />
there you can set your desired keywords at the  <code>keywords list</code>, where you have 8 groups available, where each can have different font and colour settings.</p>
<p dir="auto">best regards.</p>
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