diff --git a/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui b/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui
index b06cb562..536db2fc 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui
+++ b/src/qtgui/uiprefs.ui
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@
           </widget>
          </item>
          <item>
-          <widget class="QLineEdit" name="qtermStyleLE">
+          <widget class="QComboBox" name="qtermStyleCMB">
            <property name="minimumSize">
             <size>
              <width>50</width>
@@ -474,6 +474,12 @@
            <property name="toolTip">
             <string>Query terms highlighting in results. &lt;br&gt;Maybe try something like &quot;color:red;background:yellow&quot; for something more lively than the default blue...</string>
            </property>
+           <property name="editable">
+            <bool>true</bool>
+           </property>
+           <property name="insertPolicy">
+            <enum>QComboBox::NoInsert</enum>
+           </property>
           </widget>
          </item>
         </layout>
@@ -1494,7 +1500,7 @@ May be slow for big documents.</string>
  <resources/>
  <connections/>
  <buttongroups>
-  <buttongroup name="buttonGroup_2"/>
   <buttongroup name="buttonGroup"/>
+  <buttongroup name="buttonGroup_2"/>
  </buttongroups>
 </ui>
diff --git a/src/qtgui/uiprefs_w.cpp b/src/qtgui/uiprefs_w.cpp
index 6889db08..8f339786 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/uiprefs_w.cpp
+++ b/src/qtgui/uiprefs_w.cpp
@@ -183,7 +183,14 @@ void UIPrefsDialog::setFromPrefs()
         break;
     }
     // Query terms color
-    qtermStyleLE->setText(prefs.qtermstyle);
+    qtermStyleCMB->setCurrentText(prefs.qtermstyle);
+    if (qtermStyleCMB->count() <=1) {
+        qtermStyleCMB->addItem(prefs.qtermstyle);
+        qtermStyleCMB->addItem("color: blue");
+        qtermStyleCMB->addItem("color: red;background: yellow");
+        qtermStyleCMB->addItem(
+            "color: #dddddd; background: black; font-weight: bold");
+    }    
     // Abstract snippet separator string
     abssepLE->setText(prefs.abssep);
     dateformatLE->setText(prefs.reslistdateformat);
@@ -374,7 +381,7 @@ void UIPrefsDialog::accept()
     prefs.collapseDuplicates = collapseDupsCB->isChecked();
     prefs.maxhltextkbs = maxHLTSB->value();
 
-    prefs.qtermstyle = qtermStyleLE->text();
+    prefs.qtermstyle = qtermStyleCMB->currentText();
     prefs.abssep = abssepLE->text();
     prefs.reslistdateformat = dateformatLE->text();
     prefs.creslistdateformat = (const char*)prefs.reslistdateformat.toUtf8();