how to highlight text in Mail

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Justinh
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how to highlight text in Mail

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How do you highlight text (i.e., format the background color for a portion of text) in a mail msg? The 'background color' option changes the background of the entire msg(!).
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Re: how to highlight text in Mail

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That option is not available from the formatting toolbar. Note that the background color selection dialogue is titled "Page background color."
Justinh
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Re: how to highlight text in Mail

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Is the option available anywhere in the product?
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Re: how to highlight text in Mail

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As far as I am aware that function is not available in either SeaMonkey or Thunderbird email clients.
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Re: how to highlight text in Mail

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That's sad. Even Yahoo! mail has highlight.

Thanks.
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Re: how to highlight text in Mail

Post by Guyonacomputer »

A work around: Write your message in your favourite word processor like Libre Office. Highlight it there and then copy the text. Now paste it into your Thunderbird message.

We can also hope that add-on developer André Rodier gets his "Highlighter" add-on working again.

For further info follow this link: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/th ... er-222207/
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Thanks but this "SEAMONKEY" thread died in 2018.

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