macro for highlighting text formatting

[swebber27]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a macro that will automatically highlight specific
text formatting, like ital, bold, etc. I find that I can get it to work
when I enter something into the text field, but when I leave that field
blank (which is what I want, because I want it to highlight all
instances of italic) the macro will not work.

Can anyone help, or do you know of a macro for this?

thanks, SMW

 

[Jay Freedman]

The macro recorder has a bug that prevents it from recording your formatting
selections in the Find dialog. You'll have to fix it by hand. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/ModifyRecordedMacro.htm, in the section
"Fixing broken Replace macros".

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[swebber27]

Jay,

Thanks for the help. What code should I enter in the VBA editor to tell
it to highlight text?

SMW

 

[Jay Freedman]

To have it highlight all italic text, take the entire macro called Macro4A()
from the article I mentioned, and change the line

.Replacement.Font.Bold = True

to

.Replacement.Highlight = True

If you want to look for some other formatting, change the .Font.Italic line,
for example,

.Font.Bold = True

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Microsoft Word MVP
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