Mark text with colour

DEVONthink Tips
#1

According to the documentation: "Contrary to TextEdit, DEVONthink allows you to set the background colour of selected text. Simply select the piece of text you want to highlight, choose "Tools > Show Colors", check the option box "Background" and then select the colour of your choice."

Either I’m misunderstanding something, or this is currently (DTpe 1.6a) not working as advertised - the background of the entire window is coloured, rather than just the selection.

Very useful feature though, I look forward to it being fixed.

#2

It seems that the whole background gets coloured in plain text documents. Selected text can be highlighted in rich text docs.

#3

Ah, well done! Thanks.

Makes sense too, I guess, that it isn’t going to be possible in plain text.

In the light of this, what I thought might be a bug is only a bug in the documentation.

#4

BTW:
In version 1.7 there will be toolbar/menu items to highlight text.

#5