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KTJ
 
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Default Collecting Highlights

Doug,
In previous versions of Word, I was able to use the colored highlighting
tools to highlight sections of text. Then, I was able to "Collect
Highlights" under the Edit Toolbar and the highlighted text would
automatically be opened in a new document with the colored highlighting. It
was a very cool feature that I taught to students to help them as a study
tool. (There are expensive assistive technology software programs that do
this so it was great that I could do it right in Word.)
I haven't been able to find how to do this in the Word 2003.
Thanks. Does this help you better understand my question?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Do you mean text to which you applied a coloured background, or text that
you selected?

I don't think any version of Word has had a way of copying and pasting the
former, with Word 2003, you can definitely select non contiguous sections of
text (using the Ctrl button) and copy and paste them into another document.
They will be pasted into that document in the order (timewise) that they
were selected, which may not be the order in which they appear in the
original document.

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"KTJ" wrote in message
...
In older versions of Word, I was able to collect text that I highlighted
using the highlighting button into another document. I can't see how to
do
that in Word 2003. Was that function removed? If not, how do I do it?
Karen