[forever nana]

In the old Word, I could change the percentage of opacity of the color I was
using to highlight something in a document. In other words, I could make the
highlight color very light or dark, I can't find out how this does that if it
does. I was using a very old word, so I skipped a couple of generations of
it. Did they do away with that feature?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This has never been possible with highlighting, AFAIK, but you can apply a
percentage to "shading" (Format | Borders and Shading), which can also be
applied to text.

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"forever nana" forever wrote in message
...
In the old Word, I could change the percentage of opacity of the color I
was
using to highlight something in a document. In other words, I could make
the
highlight color very light or dark, I can't find out how this does that if
it
does. I was using a very old word, so I skipped a couple of generations of
it. Did they do away with that feature?

[Greg Maxey]

No, but you can apply shading on your own or using this AddIn.

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Highlighter.htm

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Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
This has never been possible with highlighting, AFAIK, but you can
apply a percentage to "shading" (Format | Borders and Shading), which
can also be applied to text.


"forever nana" forever wrote in
message ...
In the old Word, I could change the percentage of opacity of the
color I was using to highlight something in a document. In other
words, I could make the highlight color very light or dark, I can't
find out how this does that if it does. I was using a very old word,
so I skipped a couple of generations of it. Did they do away with
that feature?