Impress; why is it not possible to highlight text?

[SvenAERTS228]

I looked in the help, but cf. screenshot can’t find in “Formatting” the “highlighting button”. Can you?

Thy

[mikebibo]

The highlighting colour button is found on the text formatting toolbar, as the help indicates. However, it can also be accessed through the format menu: Format > Character > Highlighting. It can also be found on the properties sidebar under Character.

[Ubuntourist]

The text appears as highlighted in the editor, but in the actual presentation (and in the PDF export) the highlighting is gone.

[hellocatfood]

@ubuntourist this seems to be a longstanding bug highlight text invisible in presentation mode

[anonymous64]

As of Sept 28 2019, the following works and persists.
Format > Character > Highlighting.
LO Version: 5.1.6.2
Build ID: 1:5.1.6~rc2-0ubuntu1~xenial10