Deleting Highlights

I have been unable to find help with this on the forum...maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Is there any way to undo an immediate highlight? If my computer drags a little bit then I will click the highlight button before it shows what is highlighted and will end up highlighting a whole paragraph therefore deleting all of my highlights, or going phrase by phrase deleting. Is there a way to just delete my mess up?

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DMB

From the Logos5 help:

Tip: Use Shift-Cmd-K (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+K (Win) to erase the highlight from selected text. (Assumes selected still there.)

EDIT: This will remove all (which you don't want to do). So ignore this! But it's useful for anyone else.

Room4more

I have been unable to find help with this on the forum...maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Is there any way to undo an immediate highlight? If my computer drags a little bit then I will click the highlight button before it shows what is highlighted and will end up highlighting a whole paragraph therefore deleting all of my highlights, or going phrase by phrase deleting. Is there a way to just delete my mess up?

I think that I understand what you are asking, but before I answer can you provide a screenshot of the text you want un-highlighted..http://wiki.logos.com/Screenshot to be sure. There are lots of users using highlighting, I am fairly sure that once they see it they can be spot on in a direct solution.

fgh

Welcome to the forums.

If you use it directly, I think Ctrl-Z (Cmd-Z on Mac) will remove an accidental highlight.

You can also take a look at this post, which lists four other ways to remove highlights, and when one method may be better than another: http://community.logos.com/forums/p/65462/457605.aspx#457605.

Room4more

from the software itself {help menu] by design:

III. Remove Highlighting

1. Click on Tools | Highlighting.

2. Select highlighted text in a resource and click on Erase at the top right side of the Highlighting panel. If all of the highlighted text range associated with a note is selected and erased, the associated note will also be removed if there is no content entered.

Mark Lamas Jr.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470168#Comment_470168

This worked perfectly for me. Thanks ya'll!

Mark Lamas Jr.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470181#Comment_470181

Shift + CMD + K that is!

Jack Caviness

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470174#Comment_470174

If you use it directly, I think Ctrl-Z (Cmd-Z on Mac) will remove an accidental highlight.

Tried that, and it did not work for me. Should this be reported as a bug/parity issue? Has anybody tried Ctrl-Z in L5 Win?

Locate it in the file it is stored in, and erase it from there

(from the linked thread)

If there are other highlights in the same text, this is the only method I can see that will not erase all highlights.

Mark—Didn't Shift-CMD-K erase all highlights in the selected text?

Room4more

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470287#Comment_470287

If you use it directly, I think Ctrl-Z (Cmd-Z on Mac) will remove an accidental highlight.

Tried that, and it did not work for me. Should this be reported as a bug/parity issue? Has anybody tried Ctrl-Z in L5 Win?

Locate it in the file it is stored in, and erase it from there
(from the linked thread)
If there are other highlights in the same text, this is the only method I can see that will not erase all highlights.

Mark—Didn't Shift-CMD-K erase all highlights in the selected text?

WINDOWS(L5):

CTRL+K will add the last known style of highlighter used

CTRL+SHFT+K will remove only the highlighted text that is 'moused highlighted'. do not know of a joined keystroke that removes all highlighting.

Whatever you do do not use 'CTRL+A'

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470287#Comment_470287

If you use it directly, I think Ctrl-Z (Cmd-Z on Mac) will remove an accidental highlight.

Tried that, and it did not work for me. Should this be reported as a bug/parity issue? Has anybody tried Ctrl-Z in L5 Win?

Doesn't work on L5 Windows.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470305#Comment_470305

Looks like we all bounced around the 'Erase' or the Shift-Cntrl/Cmd-K solution.

This is an older issue solved by even my little RTF editor (reverse last action). The Logos method is destroy last action.

The erase / Shft-Cntrl-K in Libronix cuts down to the surface text for whatever is selected. I do this sometimes just to split up a highlight to see it better.

But in Logos4/5, it's far worse; it removes any highlighting that is 'touching' the selected text. Which means you can have several layers of highlights across paragraphs, and those puppies disappear in heart-beat. Clean as a whistle.

I don't retain highlights in Logos (reading Rick's new Apocrpha resource, I read him in Logos5, and highlight the same passage in Libronix!).

But I guess you guys are ok with this, since we're going on 4 years and few squeals of disaster. Personally I think it's nutty, but 'have at it'.

Ward Walker

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470308#Comment_470308

I suffer greatly from the lag issue, especially when Logos selects text other than what I wanted it to--a very common problem. I also highlight in depth--sometimes applying 4 highlighters on top of each other to get certain effects. In this use case, re-selecting text where a highlighter was inadvertently applied and erasing it is not ideal. So I now select on a sub-section of the text that contains a highlighting I didn't want applied (and contains a minimum amount of highlighting I wanted) and right click, selecting "Remove Annotations." That removes the offending highlight across the whole area it was originally applied to, but leaves the rest...even if that style of highlighter was used elsewhere in that range. This has been very handy for me...although I wish the select lag was gone (and that the select wouldn't from time to time mis-grab huge ranges of text!)

Room4more

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470308#Comment_470308

highlighting:

Not really, not for me, basically because I do not use it. So I would not make a_statement that I know more than I use or one that cannot be substantiated by Logos HQ to back me up.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/470287#Comment_470287

Tried that, and it did not work for me.

You're correct. I think I had just closed Logos when I wrote, so I couldn't check. Or maybe I was just too lazy/tired. I would have expected it to work.

Should this be reported as a bug

Good question.

I suffer greatly from the lag issue

Try clearing History regularly. It sometimes help.