Background Text Color

screed

[Disclaimer: I am in no way a newbie, but this one's got me stumped.]

All right, I did search on Deja and found the text I was looking. Deja highlights the background of each word that you searched for with a different color. So I blithely copied and pasted the text into Stickies and noticed that the colored background carried over.



I'm not trying to figure out how to get rid of the highlight because I could just delete the one or two words and retype. (Or in TextEdit, I can convert from Rich Text to Plain Text and back again).



The real issue is that I haven't found a way to control the color and alter original text. Stickies and TextEdit obviously support it but there doesn't seem to be a way apply it to text. In TextEdit, there is Format > Font > Show Colors but that only controls the color of the font itself.



Am I clueless? Or has Apple implemented incomplete Rich Text formatting?



Screed

curiousuburb

i'm guessing the copied text is considered HTML content.



textedit you'd simply convert to plain text (remove HTML tags/formatting)



highlighting the text in stickies will allow you to change text colour using the text colour menu, and you can change the note colour to kludge a new background



if that still doesn't do it... hmmmm use textedit instead.

screed

I do understand what's happening and how (Rich Text formatting). I'm just asking if I'm overlooking something obvious. Let me put my first post into one sentence:



Am I crazy, or are there no controls to change text background color within TextEdit or Stickies even though they support the display of said colors?



Screed ...Gee, why didn't I summarize that in the first place?