Background hiliting of text in TextEdit

[R.L. Grigg]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 9:27 PM, John Musbach wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2008 4:41 PM, R.L. Grigg <newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu>  
> wrote:
>> I have a .rtf file where some of the text has been background hilited
>> in yellow. In Pages or TextEdit I dont see how to alter that
>> background hiliting. I can set the background color of the entire
>> document but even that doesnt change the background hiliting of that
>> text which is highly formatted etc so I dont want to just plaintext
>> it. Surely I'm just missing where this attribute is set?
>
> Hello try opening the document in TextEdit and then going to
> TextEdit>Preferences>Open and Save>check "Ignore rich text commands in
> HTML files">click the red X on that dialog in the top left corner
> ...hopefully that'll resolve this issue for you :)

Hi John,
Hmm, no change. I found a way to reproduce it though. Just select  
some background hilited text from a web page in Safari and then paste  
it into a rich text TextEdit window. The hiliting attribute is  
apparently uneditable.

Russ