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Select Highlight text only
Hi,
I am reviewing a 150 point document and am highlighting the key points. I would like at the end of it to display and print just the highlighted text component ie, hide the unhighlighted bits. I have tried to use the autosummarise function, but it doesn't only me to select a display just highlighted text. I am using Word 2000, please help or let me know another approach. Thanks Eric. |
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Eric,
You can use EditReplace to make something work for you. Save a copy of your document first!!! For example if you only want to display and print highligthed text and maintain the spacial relationship between text, you could use the following method. EditReplaceMoreUse Wildcards. Click the FormatHighlight button Click the FormatHightlight button again. Below the find what field you should see "not highlight" Type a * in the find what field Type a single space in the Replace with field. Click replace all. You can use the undo button (or CTRL+z) to restore the changes. "Troubled!!" wrote: Hi, I am reviewing a 150 point document and am highlighting the key points. I would like at the end of it to display and print just the highlighted text component ie, hide the unhighlighted bits. I have tried to use the autosummarise function, but it doesn't only me to select a display just highlighted text. I am using Word 2000, please help or let me know another approach. Thanks Eric. |
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I tried this on a very short passage, and the Replace operation took quite a
long time, leaving the highlighted sections followed by hundreds of spaces extending out beyond the margin. If I instead leave the "Find what" box blank (no need to use wildcards) and replace with a space, then all the highlighted text remains, each chunk separated from the next by a space. I had highlighted single words, but if there are paragraphs highlighted, you might want to use ^p instead of a space to separate them. I found that that worked better when I had highlighted paragraphs or parts of paragraphs. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Greg" wrote in message ... Eric, You can use EditReplace to make something work for you. Save a copy of your document first!!! For example if you only want to display and print highligthed text and maintain the spacial relationship between text, you could use the following method. EditReplaceMoreUse Wildcards. Click the FormatHighlight button Click the FormatHightlight button again. Below the find what field you should see "not highlight" Type a * in the find what field Type a single space in the Replace with field. Click replace all. You can use the undo button (or CTRL+z) to restore the changes. "Troubled!!" wrote: Hi, I am reviewing a 150 point document and am highlighting the key points. I would like at the end of it to display and print just the highlighted text component ie, hide the unhighlighted bits. I have tried to use the autosummarise function, but it doesn't only me to select a display just highlighted text. I am using Word 2000, please help or let me know another approach. Thanks Eric. |
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Suzanne,
Your sample while "very short" was obviously longer than mine which didn't include a paragraph mark. My intent with the method I proposed was to display the highlighted text and maintain the spacial relationship in the document. I see the error of my ways and a better way to that end would be to use [!^13] vice * in the find what block. Your method is on the mark for displaying the highlighted text condensed together. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I tried this on a very short passage, and the Replace operation took quite a long time, leaving the highlighted sections followed by hundreds of spaces extending out beyond the margin. If I instead leave the "Find what" box blank (no need to use wildcards) and replace with a space, then all the highlighted text remains, each chunk separated from the next by a space. I had highlighted single words, but if there are paragraphs highlighted, you might want to use ^p instead of a space to separate them. I found that that worked better when I had highlighted paragraphs or parts of paragraphs. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Greg" wrote in message ... Eric, You can use EditReplace to make something work for you. Save a copy of your document first!!! For example if you only want to display and print highligthed text and maintain the spacial relationship between text, you could use the following method. EditReplaceMoreUse Wildcards. Click the FormatHighlight button Click the FormatHightlight button again. Below the find what field you should see "not highlight" Type a * in the find what field Type a single space in the Replace with field. Click replace all. You can use the undo button (or CTRL+z) to restore the changes. "Troubled!!" wrote: Hi, I am reviewing a 150 point document and am highlighting the key points. I would like at the end of it to display and print just the highlighted text component ie, hide the unhighlighted bits. I have tried to use the autosummarise function, but it doesn't only me to select a display just highlighted text. I am using Word 2000, please help or let me know another approach. Thanks Eric. |
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My "very short" passage was my lorem ipsum AutoText, which is a little over
a page. Given the amount of time the Replace operation took, I would not fancy using it on a document of even 20 pages, much less 150! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Greg" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Your sample while "very short" was obviously longer than mine which didn't include a paragraph mark. My intent with the method I proposed was to display the highlighted text and maintain the spacial relationship in the document. I see the error of my ways and a better way to that end would be to use [!^13] vice * in the find what block. Your method is on the mark for displaying the highlighted text condensed together. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I tried this on a very short passage, and the Replace operation took quite a long time, leaving the highlighted sections followed by hundreds of spaces extending out beyond the margin. If I instead leave the "Find what" box blank (no need to use wildcards) and replace with a space, then all the highlighted text remains, each chunk separated from the next by a space. I had highlighted single words, but if there are paragraphs highlighted, you might want to use ^p instead of a space to separate them. I found that that worked better when I had highlighted paragraphs or parts of paragraphs. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Greg" wrote in message ... Eric, You can use EditReplace to make something work for you. Save a copy of your document first!!! For example if you only want to display and print highligthed text and maintain the spacial relationship between text, you could use the following method. EditReplaceMoreUse Wildcards. Click the FormatHighlight button Click the FormatHightlight button again. Below the find what field you should see "not highlight" Type a * in the find what field Type a single space in the Replace with field. Click replace all. You can use the undo button (or CTRL+z) to restore the changes. "Troubled!!" wrote: Hi, I am reviewing a 150 point document and am highlighting the key points. I would like at the end of it to display and print just the highlighted text component ie, hide the unhighlighted bits. I have tried to use the autosummarise function, but it doesn't only me to select a display just highlighted text. I am using Word 2000, please help or let me know another approach. Thanks Eric. |
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I concede :-). With 150 pages of dummy text and about 25% of it highlighted
the process took about 3 minutes ;-( -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP A Peer in Peer to Peer Support Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: My "very short" passage was my lorem ipsum AutoText, which is a little over a page. Given the amount of time the Replace operation took, I would not fancy using it on a document of even 20 pages, much less 150! "Greg" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Your sample while "very short" was obviously longer than mine which didn't include a paragraph mark. My intent with the method I proposed was to display the highlighted text and maintain the spacial relationship in the document. I see the error of my ways and a better way to that end would be to use [!^13] vice * in the find what block. Your method is on the mark for displaying the highlighted text condensed together. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I tried this on a very short passage, and the Replace operation took quite a long time, leaving the highlighted sections followed by hundreds of spaces extending out beyond the margin. If I instead leave the "Find what" box blank (no need to use wildcards) and replace with a space, then all the highlighted text remains, each chunk separated from the next by a space. I had highlighted single words, but if there are paragraphs highlighted, you might want to use ^p instead of a space to separate them. I found that that worked better when I had highlighted paragraphs or parts of paragraphs. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Greg" wrote in message ... Eric, You can use EditReplace to make something work for you. Save a copy of your document first!!! For example if you only want to display and print highligthed text and maintain the spacial relationship between text, you could use the following method. EditReplaceMoreUse Wildcards. Click the FormatHighlight button Click the FormatHightlight button again. Below the find what field you should see "not highlight" Type a * in the find what field Type a single space in the Replace with field. Click replace all. You can use the undo button (or CTRL+z) to restore the changes. "Troubled!!" wrote: Hi, I am reviewing a 150 point document and am highlighting the key points. I would like at the end of it to display and print just the highlighted text component ie, hide the unhighlighted bits. I have tried to use the autosummarise function, but it doesn't only me to select a display just highlighted text. I am using Word 2000, please help or let me know another approach. Thanks Eric. |
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