I gave you a workaround in another newsgroup.
Give your text box no fill. Draw a rectangle around the text you want highlighted,
fill with yellow, no line, send to back.
If you have a great amount of text to highlight, I suggest using Word for your
documents. Publisher is a page layout product.

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