Hi Jezzica:

Yes, you can do this with AutoCorrect.

Study the topic "Create an AutoCorrect entry to store and automatically
insert text and graphics" in the Help.

You need to enter the words you want to search for in your AutoCorrect list,
and replace them with the same word highlighted. Make sure you choose the
"Formatted" options or the highlighting won't come in.

Forget macros for this task. You would need to be a seriously good
programmer to make a macro to do this. Ask Jezebel if s/he will send you
one, because I have never seen a macro that could do this with acceptable
performance :-)

Hope this helps

On 1/4/06 2:08 PM, in article
, "jezzica85"
wrote:

That would be perfect! I have no idea how to write or use macros, though,
could you possibly direct me to one and give me pointers on how to use it?
Thanks!

"Jezebel" wrote:

You can't do *anything* automatically while you type, other than autocorrect
which isn't going to help you here.

You could write a macro that reads words from a file or table, searches for
them in another document, and formats them in a special way. Would that
help?




"jezzica85" wrote in message
...
Hi all, does anyone know, if you have a file of words you want to keep
track
of, if there's a way to automatically highlight those words in another
file,
or to put those words in a table in the other file, then automatically
highlight them as they're typed or they already appear in the document?
Thanks!




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