Another (Dumb) Highlighting question

I've created keyboard shortcuts for a bunch of highlighting styles, but how do I activate/use them once they're created? This is particularly important to me at the moment since I've started using several books in floating windows away from the safe haven of the Logos4 menus. The help files don't seem to be particularly helpful on this one.

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Kevin Becker

Select the text you want highlighted and then press the letter assigned to the highlighting style you want.

EDIT: Note you can't highlight in reports (passage guide etc.) and Note files. Only in Books.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148012#Comment_148012

Note that you don't hold down the CTRL key. Just press the letter by itself, as is clear from Kevin's response. But this has stumped some people in the past who operate on auto-pilot. They figure all shortcut keys must involve Ctrl or something.

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148027#Comment_148027

It may be obvious, but if you are using floating windows you need to ensure that the window you want highlighting applied to has the "focus."

The ability to assign keys to shortcuts for highlighting really made my highlighting life easier, but the window focus catches me from time to time...especially when I combine using the shortcuts as well as clicking across windows to manually select highlighting (i.e., for highlighters that I don't have shortcuts for...since the highlighting tool is normally in a different window than the text I am working with, it changes the window focus when I manually click on something different [or erase]).

Sam Henderson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148012#Comment_148012

Thanks Kevin. Your reward is in heaven (Mark 9:41).

This solution was not evident in my searches of the help files, nor could I find the answer in the wiki. You wouldn't believe the number of variations I tried using the the CTRL and ALT keys.

Thank God for the forums.

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148037#Comment_148037

It may be obvious, but if you are using floating windows you need to ensure that the window you want highlighting applied to has the "focus."

The ability to assign keys to shortcuts for highlighting really made my highlighting life easier, but the window focus catches me from time to time...especially when I combine using the shortcuts as well as clicking across windows to manually select highlighting (i.e., for highlighters that I don't have shortcuts for...since the highlighting tool is normally in a different window than the text I am working with, it changes the window focus when I manually click on something different [or erase]).

I have never had any problem with the focus (and I use highlighting a lot) because as I select the text I want t highlight, it goes together with focus on that tab. So it looks very easy and logical to me, choosing the text and hitting the particular Letter Key. I don't need to think about the focus.

EDIT:

...since the highlighting tool is normally in a different window than the text I am working with

Ward, you do not have to have highlighting window opened to use the tool. But may be I do not understand exactly what you are saying.

Kevin Becker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148040#Comment_148040

I've gone and made the statement on the wiki more explicit to help people who this mistake.

[quote]

Select the text you want highlighted and press the appropriate shortcut key. (No Shift, Ctrl, Alt combination is needed)

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148053#Comment_148053

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I have never had any problem with the focus (and I use highlighting a lot) ...

...since the highlighting tool is normally in a different window than the text I am working with

Ward, you do not have to have highlighting window opened to use the tool. But may be I do not understand exactly what you are saying.

Bohuslav,

This focus issue may be fairly unique to me--I have four high-resolution monitors running at once with 14 windows and lots of tabbed content within them [it's kind of like being surrounded on three sides by in-context research assistants...albeit research assistants with really bright papers that kind of burn into one's retinas...but I digress [8-|] ]

I keep the highlighting tool open because I don't have a letter assigned to every highlighter type that I use, and I also can't Erase via a shortcut (at least to my knowledge). Now that I think about it, it is kind of odd you can't map Erase to a shortcut like "X"

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148549#Comment_148549

I also can't Erase via a shortcut (at least to my knowledge). Now that I think about it, it is kind of odd you can't map Erase to a shortcut like "X"

The shortcut for Erase is Ctrl+Shift+K. In 4.1 Beta they've added a popup when you hover over the word "Erase" to remind you of that shortcut, but it's been listed in Help for quite some time.

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148578#Comment_148578

The shortcut for Erase is Ctrl+Shift+K.

Rosie, Tks!

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/148578#Comment_148578

Thanks Rosie, I came too late to answer [:)]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149217#Comment_149217

Thanks Rosie, I came too late to answer

That's why we have so many MVPs to cover different time zones!

Dr. Charles A. Wootten

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149353#Comment_149353

That's why we have so many MVPs to cover different time zones!

Does that mean if an MVP isn't there, he's ZONED OUT?

[:S]

{charley}

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149425#Comment_149425

That's why we have so many MVPs to cover different time zones!

Does that mean if an MVP isn't there, he's ZONED OUT?

{charley}

That's crazy...Rosie is in all time zones!

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149430#Comment_149430

That's crazy...Rosie is in all time zones!

Timezones are a crazy idea. That's why its Saturday here already, but hardly anywhere else for hours or longer ...

[:)]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149775#Comment_149775

That's crazy...Rosie is in all time zones!

Timezones are a crazy idea. That's why its Saturday here already, but hardly anywhere else for hours or longer ...

Here I am up at 5:23 AM in my time zone reading this, so I guess Todd is right. I don't really experience jet lag either. My body is so used to having a random sleep schedule, that I can pretty much stay up as late as I want/need to in a new time zone and go to sleep whenever I need to because I'm always sleep deprived. Well, time to hit the hay now. I have to get up in three hours.