Minimizing Highlighting tool
I'm sure I've asked this before, but is there a way to minimize the highlighting tool?
The highlighting tool takes up space and instead of always opening it, it would be a nice idea if we could minimize it to free up screen space. I know you can drag and minimize, but that's not an option.
Something like the arrow at the bottom of the Toolbar when it is to the left of your work.
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Milkman said:
is there a way to minimize the highlighting tool?
No. However, you can move the tab elsewhere. I put my "skinny" panels on the right hand side grouped together.
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The other option is to assign shortcuts keys to your most-used highlights. I’ve assigned “y” to yellow, “r” to red, etc so that I just select the text and use the key to highlight it.
This way, I rarely even open the highlighting tool.0 -
GregW said:
I’ve assigned “y” to yellow, “r” to red, etc
I do that too. [:)]
I do keep the highlighting panel open all the time simply because I prefer not to have those skinny panels messing up my layout when I open those tools.
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GregW said:
The other option is to assign shortcuts keys to your most-used highlights. I’ve assigned “y” to yellow, “r” to red, etc so that I just select the text and use the key to highlight it.
This way, I rarely even open the highlighting tool.same here. I rarely use keyboard keys (aside from ctrl-c, -v and -f), but I use them for highighting. Moreover, the last-used highlights come up in the selection menu, so no need to use the highlighting tool except in rare cases.
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Milkman said:
is there a way to minimize the highlighting tool?
Sorta.
You can open the HL tool in a floating window. If you position it slightly off to one side, it goes behind the main window when it is not in focus; when you need it, you just click on it and it's back in front, in focus.
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JT (alabama24) said:Milkman said:
is there a way to minimize the highlighting tool?
No. However, you can move the tab elsewhere. I put my "skinny" panels on the right hand side grouped together.
Ya, that's what I kind of figured. However in reading the replies I too have some keyboard shortcuts. L for large, 1 for Bold text etc. I think I'm going to use the suggestion of floating the highlight tool, making it smaller by dragging the corner and then positioning it to a part of my open layout.
Thanks.
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