David, As others have noted, you could set up the text in a table cell and shade the cell.
However, another technique is to define a text frame with a colored fill. I like this because I can have more control over the placement and flow of the text. Note that if you try this technique, it's easier to create the frame and enter the text, then re-select the frame and define the color fill you want. If you define the frame and colored fill first, it's a bit freaky when you enter the text as it is displayed with a white background - it turns out that you can then just do ctrl-L to have FM "re-paint" the screen, thus restoring the colored fill behind the entered text. The unfortunate aspect of either method of doing this in FM is that your text flows with the colored backgrounds will be distinct from one another -- and from the flow of the doc in general, so this may not work well for you at all. However, since you are in Marketing, I am thinking this could give you some good flexibility with designing various types of marketing docs where you might need to distinguish different areas of text from others in a single doc. HTH, ================================ Ada Lai Lai Associates, Inc. Tel.: 650-873-8885 Cell: 650-270-4333 Fax: 650-873-3331 -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+adalai2000=yahoo....@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+adalai2000=yahoo.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David ARNOULT - Marketing Operations Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 7:31 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Text with colored background Hello everybody, Is there a possibility in FM to define a character style with a background color? Objective would be to define a character style with a grey background to mean a button in a software to click, for instance... Like in Word when you highlight a text in yellow... has anyone done this before in FM v7.1 on PC? Thanks for your expertise! David ARNOULT Marketing Operations _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as adalai2000 at yahoo.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/adalai2000%40yahoo.com Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.