Visual Studio Tricks


Visual Studio (2005,2008,2010) Tips and Tricks.


#501 :: Change the Background color of selected text

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Anyway --- this is a simple tip to show changing the background color of the selected text in the Text Editor.

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#501 :: Change the Background color of selected text

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Visual Studio Tip / Trick #501 English Transcription:

Today’s Visual Studio tip of the day is changing the background color of the selected text. You can see that I have changed mine to a very light pale yellow and that was done from the tools options menu under fonts and color text editor. Make sure the text editor is changed and then you can select the ‘selected text’ option. And then you can change the background color here. So if we just go from default may be we can change it to Gray ‘OK’ and now as we select we can see that we can change that background color of the selected text.
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