![]() Once “Turn off highlighting” is selected, however, at least things become what I’d hope:Īnd now you know.Google’s email service, Gmail, has, over the years grown to become one of the biggest and most popular email services on the internet, and at the time of writing, there are more than 1.8 Billion Gmail accounts.Īs such, a small change in the platform is bound to affect millions of users all across the globe and this means that the Gmail team needs to be very meticulous in what they do. Maybe that’s logical to you, but every time I want to find that feature, I look and look before I remember where it is. Turns out that it’s on the “More” menu at the very top of the screen: The logical place (to me) for the remove highlight option to be located is on the menu hidden under the “reply” arrow on the top right of the message. I’ll click on one and you can see the highlighting, whether it’s in the subject, the body, against a blue background, etc: There are a lot of messages that contain “reset”, no surprise. I’ll search for “reset” in my Gmail account: ![]() Okay, enough sniping, right? Let’s get down to it. Then again, it’s Google and while the team’s great at building big scale tools, their user interfaces quite often leave something to be desired. You can turn it off, but it’s not obvious how to do that because, by my way of thinking, it’s been added to the wrong menu. Do a search in Google’s Gmail system and while the summary listing of messages don’t highlight the match, when you’re reading a specific message, the occurrence or occurrences of the matching word, phrase or pattern are displayed with a subtle yellow background highlight. I often take screen captures - as I did for this article - and know exactly what you’re talking about.
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