There is changing background color, and there is highlighting. You want highlighting. Its icon should look like a highlighting marker.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Haim (Howard) Roman Computer Center, Jerusalem College of Technology Phone: 052-8-592-599 (6022 from within Machon Lev) On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Gary Aitken <openoff...@dreamchaser.org>wrote: > I thought I used to be able to select *some* of the text in a paragraph > and then change its background. When I try that with 3.4, it changes the > background color of the entire paragraph. > I can't seem to find a setting to make this behavior the way it used to be. > > help? > > Thanks, > > Gary > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ooo-users-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: ooo-users-h...@incubator.apache.org > >