8. HIGHLIGHTING YOUR TEXT AND DOCUMENTS
Where's the highlighter tool? This is not Microsoft Word, so you will have to be a little more creative if you want to highlight your documents.
If you've ever seen TrialDirector, you know what it is supposed to look like. If you've ever seen a slide with pale yellow washed out text that is supposed to be highlighted, you know what it looks like when it's done wrong (or at least, not as nice as it could be). Many lawyers highlight by drawing a box around the desired text and then choosing a pale yellow semi-transparent fill -- it really doesn't look very nice.
For text, you have a couple choices. One is to place white text inside a black background or text frame, and then simply use a yellow font color on the portion you'd like to highlight. People refer to this method as "reverse text."
Another way is to create a rectangle with a white fill color and cover the text, then make that rectangle 50% transparent. With the bulk of the text screened back now create a text block with the highlighted text on top of the transparent screen. Making the highlighted text block bigger will also POP the information out.
For documents, you are better off doing the highlighting in TrialDirector and capturing a screenshot. It is a very helpful program for such tasks.
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