The "Reading Highlight" command in the Find dialog box is new in Word 2007.
It uses a yellow highlight, or last Highlight color selected, to identify
the found text. Of course it's still a bit confusing since, as noted, it
doesn't print and is removed if you edit the document.
The "Find All" functionality, which selects the text, is still available and
works similar to previous versions. The difference is the scope of the Find
can now be set to Text Boxes, Headers and Footers, and Comments if the
elements are present in the document.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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That's what I thought, but I couldn't be 100% sure and figured it was
worth including the other information for good measure. Although users
have long referred to text selection as "highlighting," I think it was a
bad idea for Word's designers to yield to this usage given that the term
is reserved for another function in Word.
"Megan Morgan" wrote in message
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The first one was the problem. The Replace fixes it. I suspect the reason
it wasn't printing is because it really wasn't there since Replace wasn't
used.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I think you're confusing two uses of the word "highlight." In Word 2003,
as in Word 2007, using Find All (Highlight All) merely selects the found
text. If you want to apply a highlight, you have to use the Replace
function to find text and apply highlighting through Format | Highlight.
The currently selected highlight color will be used.
If you have actually applied highlighting to the text, it will be
printed or not depending on whether or not it's actually displayed on
the page, which depends on a display option. In Word 2007, this is
Office Button | Word Options | Display: Show highlighter marks.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Megan Morgan" wrote in message
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In Word 2007, choose Ctrl+F, type in your search, click Highlight All.
This much works. However, as soon as you continue to type to add more
to the document, all of the highlighting that was just created above
disappears. Also, if you don't type but choose Print to try to print
the highlighting, the highlighting doesn't print. This didn't happen in
Word 2003.
Megan Morgan