Is there a way to highlight text? I don't mean selecting, or applying backgound color to the text box. I just want the text itself to have a background color, like I can in word.
Assuming June the Second text tools for visio does NOT meet your needs....you could look at this
Dont know what this will look like but
2 text boxes
Text 1 box....insert field and use a user cell user.textbox1
Text 2 box...insert field and use a user cell user.textbox2
text box 1...text at bottom
text box 2...text at top
put same string in user.textbox1 and user.textbox2
visually line up the text on the screen (text boxes should partially overlap in the vertical direction....so you can still select either)
bring textbox 1 to front
go into textbox2 shapesheet and set font 1pt larger than text box 1
change font color to say gray
If you are happy with that, then
group them
make 1 user cell at group level user.textbox (it will hold the string....can do a props.cell and use docmd(1312) in double click event to callup editing window
subselect each text box and set user.textbox1 = <groupid>!user.textbox and user.textbox2 = <groupid>!user.textbox
in textbox2....set the font point to fontsize = <textbox1id>!fontsize + 1pt
save it to a stencil for reusue
I'd start over here
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2006/08/18/running-with-characters.aspx
second part is over here
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visio/archive/2006/08/22/running-with-characters-part-2.aspx
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The problem is much easier to solve than grouping two boxes.
1. Highlight the text.
2. Right click and select paragraph
3. Go to the "Text Block" tab.
4. In the lower part of the dialog box change the text background color.