This is what I mean by the highlights, in this case I was looking at a table of test results and wanted to see which ones were failed, without a highlight I had to strain my eyes and look at each word, with the highlight, it's like magic, the failed tests just pop out instantly!
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So how do you turn this amazing feature on?
When looking at results/data simply right click and select 'Find/Highlight...'
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This brings up a dialogue box, in my case I typed in 'fail' in the, ticked 'Whole Word' and 'Persist Highlight' and chose a red colour to display the cell with.
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This will save the highlight for good, it can be removed later by clicking the X button in the same dialogue box next to the previously persisted highlight.
There is a bit of a bug I found with the highlight colour selector on OS X however, it seems that when you click to select a colour, the entire dialogue box disappears. The way to get around this is to click the down arrow on the colour selector and use arrow keys to select the colour instead.
-i