Lotus Notes 6 Help - Marking text with permanent pen or highlighters

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Marking text with permanent pen or highlighters
You can highlight text in two ways - using permanent pen or using a highlighter pen. You must be in a rich-text field to use permanent pen and highlighters.

For example, suppose you want to respond to the question in the following document:

Plain text

To make your answers stand out from the questions, use permanent pen like this:

Plain text with permanent pen

Or you can use a highlighter like this:

Click any of these topics:

To set permanent pen font
To turn on permanent pen
To change the permanent pen font and color
To highlight text
To erase highlighter over text

To set permanent pen font

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Choose Text - Text Properties and click the Font tab.

3. Choose preferred font, size, style, and color for your permanent pen.

Note

You can customize colors by using the color wheel button in the top right corner of the Background Color box.

4. Choose Text - Permanent Pen - Set Permanent Pen Style.

Note Notes automatically turns on permanent pen when you set the permanent pen font.

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To turn on permanent pen

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Choose Text - Permanent Pen - Use Permanent Pen.

Note To turn off permanent pen, choose Text - Permanent Pen - Use Permanent Pen.

Tip When permanent pen is enabled, you can strike through existing text automatically. Select the text and press SHIFT+BACKSPACE. Notes displays the text in the permanent pen font with strikethrough.

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To change the permanent pen font and color

By default, the permanent pen font is red bold.

1. Choose Text - Text Properties.

2. Click the Font tab.

3. Select a font, size, style, and/or color.

4. Choose Text - Permanent Pen - Set Permanent Pen.

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To highlight text

1. Put the document in Edit mode.

2. Choose Text - Highlighter - Use <color> Highlighter.

3. Drag your mouse from left to right over the text to highlight.