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Section 11: Using Kurzweil Highlighting Tools

The Highlight tools are used in the same way that you would use a highlighting pen in a book.

To use a highlighting tool, click on one of the highlight colors and select the text in the document.

Let’s use yellow for bold-faced words and green for their definitions.

Notice that the highlighting tool remains “active” until you turn it “off” again.

To erase all or a portion of a highlight, use the Erase tool.

If you don’t want to see the highlights, choose View -> Annotations and uncheck the mark beside Show Highlighting.

On the Reading Toolbar you can choose to read by highlight. This would be useful for skimming a chapter to study for a test.

At the time of printing, you are given the option of printing the document with the highlights or printing the highlighted text only.

You can also extract your highlights to a separate file.

To change your options for extracting your highlights, choose Tools -> Options and go to the Study Skills tab.

Here you can change the names of the highlights, the indentation, and choose which ones to extract.

Let’s rename the yellow highlight “Vocabulary” and the green highlight “Definitions”.

Let’s indent the green 0.50 (half) inch and extract only the yellow and green highlights.

Let’s also insert blank lines between the highlights to make them a little easier to read in the extracted document.

Then choose File -> Extract -> Highlights, and we see the highlights extracted and indented.

And, notice that although the names of the highlights are still reading Yellow and Green on the toolbar, the new names do appear when we rest the cursor on the highlight.

This concludes Section 11.