Visual Filters - how to highlight multiple words the same way.

DMM
DMM Member Posts: 253 ✭✭✭

I wanted to setup a visual filter to highlight a number of words in a collection of my books (they aren't Bibles) and I'm struggling to figure out the best way to do so.

They are all going to be highlighted the same way. I was trying to see if I could do so without having to enter each word with it's highlighting formatting individually.

I tried doing multiple words on a line and the results are mixed and also seem to change.

At first I tried word1 OR word2 OR word3 etc but that ultimately didn't work. Some would be highlighted and some wouldn't, and there didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it.

Then I noticed that I didn't need to use OR, I could just use a space. So word1 word2 word3, etc. But that had the same problems as using OR.

Then I noticed I could enter 5 words on one line and they were all highlighted. But then after entering a few lines, it would seem that some of the previously highlighted words were no longer highlighted, and I had to add them again.

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,428 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 6 Answer ✓

    I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do. I have a filter that does what you're describing, using 'OR's. And works fine (see below). I use 3 per row but that's just scanability.

    What's so interesting, is absent quotes, it highlights variants of the word in the filter … that really extends the value of the filter.

    Screenshot 2025-04-05 at 7.48.12 PM.png

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,428 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 6 Answer ✓

    I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do. I have a filter that does what you're describing, using 'OR's. And works fine (see below). I use 3 per row but that's just scanability.

    What's so interesting, is absent quotes, it highlights variants of the word in the filter … that really extends the value of the filter.

    Screenshot 2025-04-05 at 7.48.12 PM.png

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • DMM
    DMM Member Posts: 253 ✭✭✭

    @DMB

    Thank you!

    I'm not sure what I was doing wrong. But I tried it using your setup - groups of three, using OR, and as far as I can tell it works just fine.