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Another way you can do this is to type the paragraph in Word and apply your background shading. Then, copy the whole paragraph from Word and paste it straight into FrameMaker (not in an anchored frame). For some reason or another, Word features are available when you paste them this way.
Keep in mind that there are several drawbacks to using this method. FrameMaker does not search or spell check inside of this text frame, and most HTML converters treat this text frame as a graphic.
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Julee,
This may not be a reliable way to try to do this. When you paste this way, in a default FM configuration, the paragraph gets inserted as an OLE object. These are quite flakey in FM and with some installations, such as XP SP3 upgrades, OLE is broken and you won't get anything.
Also, if the user has changed their clipboard pasting priorities in the maker.ini, then they'll probably lose the background anyway.
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Thank you for this feature request. This feature is also requested by us. It is important, however, that it is fully functional and supported for structured documents too. That means that there has to be a way to express Text Backgroud Shading via EDD Layout Rules (Text or Paragraph properties).
None of the workarounds described above will work with structured documents.
Frank Steimke
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Resurrecting this old thread, I have found (while tacky) the need to highlight (shade) a selected phrase or set of characters rather than an entire paragraph in InDesign. Is this possible? It's now 2018 and we've upgraded numerous versions of InDesign since this thread was started. Hoping CC 2019 has added this feature. Thanks.