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    • Rowan Sylvester-BradleyR
      Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
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      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?

      Thanks - Rowan

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      • Meta ChuhM
        Meta Chuh moderator @Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
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        @Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley

        if you like to highlight words or sections temporarily, go to the menu search > mark, enter a text to highlight, and press mark.

        if you have about the same repeating keywords every time, you can create a user defined language at the menu language > define your language > create new.
        there you can set your desired keywords at the keywords list, where you have 8 groups available, where each can have different font and colour settings.

        best regards.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
          last edited by Alan Kilborn

          @Rowan-Sylvester-Bradley

          In addition to @Meta-Chuh 's suggestions, how about Search > Mark All > ... which will work on preselected text?
          There you’ll find FIVE different colors for your pleasure. And by using Search > Jump Down > … you can easily come back later. (Also Jump Up).

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          • ajay gohilA
            ajay gohil
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            To highlight a block of code in Notepad++, please do the following steps

            1)Select the required text.
            2)Right click to display the context menu
            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.

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @ajay gohil
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              @ajay-gohil

              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.

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              • Prahlad-Makwana4145P
                Prahlad-Makwana4145
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                –> To highlight a block of code in Notepad++, please do the following steps

                step-1 :- Select the required text.

                step-2 :- Right click to display the context menu

                step-3 :- Choose Style token and select any of the five choices available ( Styles from Using 1st style to using 5th style ). Each is different colors. if you want yellow color choose using 3rd style.

                –> If you want to create your own style you can use style configurator under Setting menu…

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                • Alan KilbornA
                  Alan Kilborn
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                  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.

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                  • mikegonzalez2kM
                    mikegonzalez2k @Alan Kilborn
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                    • mikegonzalez2kM
                      mikegonzalez2k
                      last edited by mikegonzalez2k

                      Here are the steps to highlight your CURRENT LINE.

                      Settings -> Style Configurator

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                      Global Styles -> Current Line Background
                      Change the Background Color.
                      In my case I turned it to a dark blue.

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                      • Abhay SolankiA
                        Abhay Solanki @Prahlad-Makwana4145
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                        @Prahlad-Makwana4145 thanks

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