Highli8trs

Here’s a battle that I’ve been waging for some time now: Microsoft Word’s highlighter function. Now don’t get me wrong- I find this tool quite useful in reading and reviewing. No, my qualm is with the colors Microsoft chose to highlight in.

To help, I’ve broken the colors down into categories:

Acceptable Colors:

• Fluorescent Yellow
• Lime Green
• Pink
• Cyan

Ehhh:

• Royal Blue
• Red

Are You F****** Kidding Me:

• Navy Blue
• Dark Teal/ Viridian
• Hunter Green
• Eggplant
• Maroon
• Dingy Gold
• TWO Shades of Grey
• Black

**Question: Why are there EIGHT dark, obscure highlighter colors, and yet no Orange or Purple?? **

If you’ve ever bought a pack of highlighters, the standard colors are Yellow (or Fluorescent Yellow— but that’s another story), Orange, Pink, Green and/or Blue (Sharpie also offers Purple as a standard color). Granted, Office Depot sells an 8-pack of highlighters that also offers Red, Royal Blue and Magenta (Note: not Maroon) units, however these are accompanied by the STANDARD colors.

This wouldn’t be a big deal, but Microsoft (in some effort to force the world to highlight in Eggplant) doesn’t let you create your own colors (like you can do with font colors).

So apparently when they talked to all those oh-so-relatable common folk that claim “…Windows 7 was my idea.” they must have picked a bunch of jackasses who have never, and will will never, use a highlighter. So yeah, Windows 7 was your idea. But unfortunately, your ideas suck.