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Find Option
I used the Find option to locate specific words in my document and then I
used the Highlight all Option. When I closed out of the Find dialog box, the highlighted words disappeared. Is this the way it is supposed to be? Or should the words stay highlighted? Thanks, Karen |
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Find Option
Instead of closing the Find dialog while all instances are highlighted, just
click the title bar of the document window to return focus to the document. You can then perform whatever action you ended to perform on the selected text. You can drag the Find window out of the way if necessary. If you actually want to apply Highlight to the found text (note that "Highlight" in the dialog just means "select"), then you can use Format | Highlight in the Replace dialog instead, or you can use the Highlight button after you've found and "highlighted" the text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "KM" wrote in message ... I used the Find option to locate specific words in my document and then I used the Highlight all Option. When I closed out of the Find dialog box, the highlighted words disappeared. Is this the way it is supposed to be? Or should the words stay highlighted? Thanks, Karen |
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Thanks so much for answering - so basically choosing a specific color to
highlight the text you find from the Find Dialog box - really does nothing more than select the text. If I want to actually choose a color to highlight text, I use the Text Highlight Color from the toolbar? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of closing the Find dialog while all instances are highlighted, just click the title bar of the document window to return focus to the document. You can then perform whatever action you ended to perform on the selected text. You can drag the Find window out of the way if necessary. If you actually want to apply Highlight to the found text (note that "Highlight" in the dialog just means "select"), then you can use Format | Highlight in the Replace dialog instead, or you can use the Highlight button after you've found and "highlighted" the text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "KM" wrote in message ... I used the Find option to locate specific words in my document and then I used the Highlight all Option. When I closed out of the Find dialog box, the highlighted words disappeared. Is this the way it is supposed to be? Or should the words stay highlighted? Thanks, Karen |
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Correct. And you can do this with the Replace dialog, using Format |
Highlight, which will apply whatever highlight color is currently selected. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "KM" wrote in message ... Thanks so much for answering - so basically choosing a specific color to highlight the text you find from the Find Dialog box - really does nothing more than select the text. If I want to actually choose a color to highlight text, I use the Text Highlight Color from the toolbar? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Instead of closing the Find dialog while all instances are highlighted, just click the title bar of the document window to return focus to the document. You can then perform whatever action you ended to perform on the selected text. You can drag the Find window out of the way if necessary. If you actually want to apply Highlight to the found text (note that "Highlight" in the dialog just means "select"), then you can use Format | Highlight in the Replace dialog instead, or you can use the Highlight button after you've found and "highlighted" the text. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "KM" wrote in message ... I used the Find option to locate specific words in my document and then I used the Highlight all Option. When I closed out of the Find dialog box, the highlighted words disappeared. Is this the way it is supposed to be? Or should the words stay highlighted? Thanks, Karen |
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