Text Shading

[Eric Schendel]

What is a good way to go about highlighting text with a grey color (or
anyother color)?  I found shade.sty and \colorbox{color}{text} but neither
allows a good way for handling paragraphs because the text won't wrap on
long lines, or maybe I just don't know how to cause a newline within the
text.  I am fairly new to lyx and help would be much appreciated.

Eric