You must select the text first. Property node -> text -> Select -> Start Property node -> text -> Select -> End
Then... Property node -> text -> Font -> color It doesn't look like you can change the background for individual characters though. Hope that helps. Cheers "Tom Whitaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I can make sections of text in a string indicator different colors > manually but I can't figure out a way to do it programmatically. The > goal here is to highlight two sections of a long text string by making > them different colors while leaving the rest black. Any ideas?? > > Tom