That's why God invented named colors, Gary. If I had a flier or something of the sort and wanted to use a text highlight, I would create a named color and use it for the background color. then one just uses the picker to select the named color in the color line.

What I wouldn't do is use a rectangle...not as long as the background color exists, anyway. And what do you do with this method when the copy changes, Gary? Move each rectangle?