Thanks, tj. Considering all my highlight icons are macros anyhow, this is
great. Hadn't realized it was so simple.

DM


On 3/5/05 11:25 AM, "tjtjjtjt" wrote:

An example of a macro to highlight selected text:

Sub LightGreen()
Selection.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = 12253391
End Sub

As you may have guessed from the name, this yields a light green color on my
system.