How to Highlight Text in Yellow in Pages 5.0
The most expedient method I have discovered is as follows: Ensure the "Text" formatting side-menu is open, and follow the steps associated with Chad Decker's screen-shot (see top of this web-page)
- Close the "Advanced Options" menu
- Click the "Character Styles" tab
- Click the "+" tab to "create a character style based on selected text"
- Name the new character style (e.g., "Highlight")
When you want to highlight text, select the text, click the "Characters Styles" tab, then select "Highlight" from the drop-down menu.
Sadly, this "fix" is not preserved upon quitting the Pages application.
⇧ Shift-⌘ Cmd-H is the new shortcut (or Insert > Highlight from the menu).
You can supposedly save your formatting style in Pages 5 so that it can be re-used - that makes it accessible in future with only a few actions (select text, open format panel if not open, and then select the style from the menu). Unfortunately this doesn't appear to stick around - after creating a new document - I found it had dropped the style. So one option here would be to create yourself a pages document that is a palette of the styles you use frequently, then you can use it to copy the style from as you need it as copy-style/paste-style works across documents. Not ideal but might save you a bit of time.
Copy the style (Format > Copy Style or shift-command-C)
Paste style (Format > Past Style or shift-command-V)