I don't mind building a Macro to do this, but Find/Replace is too limited in
its text translation capabilities. The key is that certain words 20 or so
need to be color highlighted with specific colors, like "depressed" will
always be highlighted Blue and "angry" will always be highlighted Red. These
words will not change over time, but some new words may be added. The
easiest way is to have a list of words to search for and an "action"
associated with each word, e.g if "depressed", then "Highlight Blue". This
dies not seem hard to do programatically, but maybe there is a macro or
program out there that already does it so I don't end up reinventing the
wheel? Thanks for your thoughts on this.

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

An "after the fact" alternative would be Find & Replace, you have to click
on More to get access to formatting commands in the F&R box.

If the keyword list changes often, you could probably create a macro that
would make it easy to plug in new keywords. If always the same keywords,
setting up the AutoCorrects is probably better.


On 2/17/05 10:51 AM, "Martin P" wrote:

AutoCorrect Options should work for this. Suppose you always want "keyword"
to be in bold. Type the word, highlight it and change the format to bold. Go
to Tools, AutoCorrect Options and type "keyword" on the left-hand side.
Choose formatted text and press OK.

"davegeorge7" wrote:

How can I automatically color hightlight key words in a Word document, based
upon a supplied keyword list or table? As a macro function or some other
pre-process?