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Changing Existing Highlighting If you have a document with lots of existing highlighting, you might want to change it all to a different color. Word makes this easy by using a rather arcane portion of the Find and Replace dialog box. Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
Changing the Highlighting Color You can highlight your text in any of fifteen different colors. This tip explains how to pick different colors, and what that means for the highlighting you’ve already completed. Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
Controlling the Printing of Highlighting Got highlighted text in your document? If you don’t want it to show up on the printout, all you need to do is configure Word so that highlighting doesn’t display. This tip explains how you do that. Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
Expanding Colors Available for Highlighting Word’s highlighter tool allows you to mark text in one of fifteen colors. If you want to use more colors, you’ll need to resort to a different way to highlight the text. This tip describes your options. Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
Highlighting Text Using the Keyboard Only Highlighting text, using the Highlight tool, is a great way to mark up a document. Normally you need to use the toolbar tools to add highlighting, but you can create your own shortcuts to add the highlighting you desire. Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003 2007
Turning Off Highlighter Display Word allows you to highlight as much of your document content as you’d like. When you print the document, however, you may not want the highlighting to show up. Here’s how to turn off the display. Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
Using the Highlighter The highlighter is a handy tool that allows you to “color” text in a document, the same as highlighters from your local office supply store can do on a printed page. Using the tool to apply or remove highlighting is quick and easy, as described in this tip. Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
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