Hide the Highlight

When you highlight a word using the Type tool (T) and attempt to change its color, the highlight ends up giving you an inversed color effect for the type. So, to keep the text highlighted and see the real color, press Command-H (PC: Control-H) to hide the highlight. Keep in mind that the text is still highlighted, but you just can't see the highlight (as in our example here, where our black type was inverted to white, but by using this tip, we hid the highlight so we could see the black type). Repeat the shortcut to show the highlight again.