Changing Existing Highlighting

Do you have a document that has lots of highlighting already applied in it? Do you want to change all that highlighting from the current color to a different color? If you answered yes to these questions, you can use the find and replace capabilities of Word to achieve the desired results. Follow these steps:

1. Use the Highlight tool to specify the color you want as the "after" color; the one you want to change to. (Click the drop-down arrow at the right of the Highlight tool and select the color you want.)
2. Press Ctrl+H to display the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
3. With the insertion point in the Find What box, click Format | Highlight. (You may need to click the More button to see the Format button.)
4. With the insertion point in the Replace With box, again click Format | Highlight.
5. Click Replace All.

All of the highlighting in the document should change to whatever color you selected in step 1.