[Anthony Giorgianni]

Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old macros
and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Tony Jollans]

Can you post an example of a macro that doesn't work?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old macros
and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting. Any
ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Yes, Tony

Here is what the recorder did when I tried to set it up.

Sub Green()
'
' Green Macro
' Macro recorded 1/31/2007 by
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
End Sub

It doesn't work to activate green highlighting; nor does it turn selected
text green.
here is one that definitely ran on office 2000 that doesn't work on Word
2003. It actually brings up "find and replace," oddly, as do all my other
old highlighter macros!

Sub Red()
'
' Red Macro
' Macro recorded 01/06/2004 by Anthony Giorgianni
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "{F5}"
End Sub

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.
"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
Can you post an example of a macro that doesn't work?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old
macros and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Tony Jollans]

The Macro recorder, unfortunately, is not perfect. All that does is set the
default highlight colour; to apply it to the selection you need:

Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdGreen

You don't actually need to set the default colour; the above line is all you
need and it will highlight the selcted text in the given colour (green in
this example).

I don't understand the Find and Replace bit, sorry.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Yes, Tony

Here is what the recorder did when I tried to set it up.

Sub Green()
'
' Green Macro
' Macro recorded 1/31/2007 by
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
End Sub

It doesn't work to activate green highlighting; nor does it turn selected
text green.
here is one that definitely ran on office 2000 that doesn't work on Word
2003. It actually brings up "find and replace," oddly, as do all my other
old highlighter macros!

Sub Red()
'
' Red Macro
' Macro recorded 01/06/2004 by Anthony Giorgianni
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "{F5}"
End Sub

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.
"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
Can you post an example of a macro that doesn't work?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old
macros and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Lene Fredborg]

The following macro will change the highlight color of the selection to red -
it does not change the color selected in the Highlight icon in the Formatting
toolbar:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

If you want to change the color selected in the Highlight icon too, add the
following code line to the macro:

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

Replace wdRed by the desired WdColorIndex.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old macros
and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Lene Fredborg]

I somehow failed to notice that the answer in my post above was already given
by Tony Jollans. Sorry.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

The following macro will change the highlight color of the selection to red -
it does not change the color selected in the Highlight icon in the Formatting
toolbar:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

If you want to change the color selected in the Highlight icon too, add the
following code line to the macro:

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

Replace wdRed by the desired WdColorIndex.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old macros
and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Tony Jollans]

No need to apologise, Lene. At least we both gave the same answer :-)

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
I somehow failed to notice that the answer in my post above was already
given
by Tony Jollans. Sorry.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

The following macro will change the highlight color of the selection to
red -
it does not change the color selected in the Highlight icon in the
Formatting
toolbar:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

If you want to change the color selected in the Highlight icon too, add
the
following code line to the macro:

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

Replace wdRed by the desired WdColorIndex.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn
on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old
macros
and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting. Any
ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Lene Fredborg]

Thanks, Tony. Anyway, two similar answers are better than none ;-)

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Tony Jollans" wrote:

No need to apologise, Lene. At least we both gave the same answer :-)

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
I somehow failed to notice that the answer in my post above was already
given
by Tony Jollans. Sorry.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Lene Fredborg" wrote:

The following macro will change the highlight color of the selection to
red -
it does not change the color selected in the Highlight icon in the
Formatting
toolbar:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

If you want to change the color selected in the Highlight icon too, add
the
following code line to the macro:

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

Replace wdRed by the desired WdColorIndex.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn
on
highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called "Green"
"yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old
macros
and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting. Any
ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Thank you both. Works well. Now to finish it, how do I just turn on
highlighting tool with the appropriate color so that I can go highlighting
things without selecting them first?

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.


"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
The Macro recorder, unfortunately, is not perfect. All that does is set
the default highlight colour; to apply it to the selection you need:

Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdGreen

You don't actually need to set the default colour; the above line is all
you need and it will highlight the selcted text in the given colour (green
in this example).

I don't understand the Find and Replace bit, sorry.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Yes, Tony

Here is what the recorder did when I tried to set it up.

Sub Green()
'
' Green Macro
' Macro recorded 1/31/2007 by
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
End Sub

It doesn't work to activate green highlighting; nor does it turn selected
text green.
here is one that definitely ran on office 2000 that doesn't work on Word
2003. It actually brings up "find and replace," oddly, as do all my other
old highlighter macros!

Sub Red()
'
' Red Macro
' Macro recorded 01/06/2004 by Anthony Giorgianni
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "{F5}"
End Sub

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.
"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
Can you post an example of a macro that doesn't work?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn
on highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called
"Green" "yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old
macros and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the highlighting.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Tony Jollans]

Not sure about not selecting them first but the recorded code you posted
should change the default on the toolbar button

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Thank you both. Works well. Now to finish it, how do I just turn on
highlighting tool with the appropriate color so that I can go highlighting
things without selecting them first?

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.


"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
The Macro recorder, unfortunately, is not perfect. All that does is set
the default highlight colour; to apply it to the selection you need:

Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdGreen

You don't actually need to set the default colour; the above line is all
you need and it will highlight the selcted text in the given colour
(green in this example).

I don't understand the Find and Replace bit, sorry.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Yes, Tony

Here is what the recorder did when I tried to set it up.

Sub Green()
'
' Green Macro
' Macro recorded 1/31/2007 by
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
End Sub

It doesn't work to activate green highlighting; nor does it turn
selected text green.
here is one that definitely ran on office 2000 that doesn't work on Word
2003. It actually brings up "find and replace," oddly, as do all my
other old highlighter macros!

Sub Red()
'
' Red Macro
' Macro recorded 01/06/2004 by Anthony Giorgianni
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "{F5}"
End Sub

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.
"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
Can you post an example of a macro that doesn't work?

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Hello Everyone

In my old version (2000?) of work I was able to set up macros to turn
on highlighting of different colors- having toolbar macros called
"Green" "yellow" "red"etc.

But I can't seem to do it in word 2003. I've tried importing my old
macros and rerecroding as well. It just won't turn on the
highlighting. Any ideas?

Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni
For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Thanks Tony.

I found the problem. On my old laptop, I must have assigned F5 to turn on
hgihlighting. So when I transferred the macro to my new laptop with
"Sendkey" F5, it didn't trigger the highlighter but instead ran Find and
replace, the assignment for f5 on that machine :O)

Now it works fine with:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "(F10)"

With F10 now assigned to turn on highlighting.

End Sub

Thanks again to you and Lene.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

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[Anthony Giorgianni]

Oooops .... make that

Sub Highlight red()

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "{F10}"
End Sub

This turns on highlighting to highlight unselected text or highlights
selected text.

Thanks again.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.
"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Thanks Tony.

I found the problem. On my old laptop, I must have assigned F5 to turn on
hgihlighting. So when I transferred the macro to my new laptop with
"Sendkey" F5, it didn't trigger the highlighter but instead ran Find and
replace, the assignment for f5 on that machine :O)

Now it works fine with:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "(F10)"

With F10 now assigned to turn on highlighting.

End Sub

Thanks again to you and Lene.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Tony Jollans]

Whilst that may work for you ...

* most people don't have F10 - or any key - assigned to highlighting
* Sendkeys is generally best avoided

If you use the explicit statement (Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed) that Lene and I have both suggested you will find it works just as
well. The only difference (which you'll generally be unaware of) is that it
will work when Sendkeys would have failed, and also that it will work for
other people as well.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Thanks Tony.

I found the problem. On my old laptop, I must have assigned F5 to turn on
hgihlighting. So when I transferred the macro to my new laptop with
"Sendkey" F5, it didn't trigger the highlighter but instead ran Find and
replace, the assignment for f5 on that machine :O)

Now it works fine with:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "(F10)"

With F10 now assigned to turn on highlighting.

End Sub

Thanks again to you and Lene.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Thanks Tony

But without using Sendkey, I can't figure out how simply to turn on
highlighting without selecting anything first. Am I missing something?


--
Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

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to the newsgroup.

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
Whilst that may work for you ...

* most people don't have F10 - or any key - assigned to highlighting
* Sendkeys is generally best avoided

If you use the explicit statement (Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed) that Lene and I have both suggested you will find it works just as
well. The only difference (which you'll generally be unaware of) is that
it
will work when Sendkeys would have failed, and also that it will work for
other people as well.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Thanks Tony.

I found the problem. On my old laptop, I must have assigned F5 to turn
on
hgihlighting. So when I transferred the macro to my new laptop with
"Sendkey" F5, it didn't trigger the highlighter but instead ran Find and
replace, the assignment for f5 on that machine :O)

Now it works fine with:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "(F10)"

With F10 now assigned to turn on highlighting.

End Sub

Thanks again to you and Lene.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Tony Jollans]

There are two (VBA) statements that you seem to be confusing or
misunderstanding:

1. Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This highlights the selection without affecting the toolbar button - and is
the one to use to avoid sendkeys.

2. Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This changes the toolbar button (which then allows the sendkeys to use it to
get the chosen colour) but does not affect the text.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" d
wrote in message ...
Thanks Tony

But without using Sendkey, I can't figure out how simply to turn on
highlighting without selecting anything first. Am I missing something?


--
Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

The return address for this post is fictitious. Please reply by posting
back
to the newsgroup.

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
Whilst that may work for you ...

* most people don't have F10 - or any key - assigned to highlighting
* Sendkeys is generally best avoided

If you use the explicit statement (Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed) that Lene and I have both suggested you will find it works just as
well. The only difference (which you'll generally be unaware of) is that
it
will work when Sendkeys would have failed, and also that it will work for
other people as well.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote in message
...
Thanks Tony.

I found the problem. On my old laptop, I must have assigned F5 to turn
on
hgihlighting. So when I transferred the macro to my new laptop with
"Sendkey" F5, it didn't trigger the highlighter but instead ran Find
and
replace, the assignment for f5 on that machine :O)

Now it works fine with:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
SendKeys "(F10)"

With F10 now assigned to turn on highlighting.

End Sub

Thanks again to you and Lene.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Thanks Tony

You're right. I did not understand that difference between the two lines.
But I'm still not certain.

What then would be the sequence to create a taskbar button (say a red box,
for example) that, when clicked, would

1) Change the highlight button to red
2) Turn on red highlighting so that:
a) Highlighted text would turn red or
b) if no text is highlighted, simply turn on red highlighting so
that I can highlight as I read by dragging my cursor across unhighlighted
text?

Right now I'm using:

1) Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed (to select red and turn any
selected text to red)
2) SendKeys "{F10}" (to turn on highlighting - where my computer has been
set to use F10 to turn on highlighting).

I think you are right. It would be better not to use the sendkeys command
(especially if I want to move the macro to another computer). But I'm not
sure of the sequence that will avoid using sendkeys.

Sorry if I'm being obtuse. I'm not very familiar with VB.

Thanks.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
There are two (VBA) statements that you seem to be confusing or
misunderstanding:

1. Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This highlights the selection without affecting the toolbar button - and
is the one to use to avoid sendkeys.

2. Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This changes the toolbar button (which then allows the sendkeys to use it
to get the chosen colour) but does not affect the text.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

[Lene Fredborg]

Anthony,

You only need to combine the two lines of code as in the macro below:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

The first code line changes the highlight button to red.
The second line will apply red highlight to the selection. If no text is
selected, the second line does not make any changes to the text.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Thanks Tony

You're right. I did not understand that difference between the two lines.
But I'm still not certain.

What then would be the sequence to create a taskbar button (say a red box,
for example) that, when clicked, would

1) Change the highlight button to red
2) Turn on red highlighting so that:
a) Highlighted text would turn red or
b) if no text is highlighted, simply turn on red highlighting so
that I can highlight as I read by dragging my cursor across unhighlighted
text?

Right now I'm using:

1) Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed (to select red and turn any
selected text to red)
2) SendKeys "{F10}" (to turn on highlighting - where my computer has been
set to use F10 to turn on highlighting).

I think you are right. It would be better not to use the sendkeys command
(especially if I want to move the macro to another computer). But I'm not
sure of the sequence that will avoid using sendkeys.

Sorry if I'm being obtuse. I'm not very familiar with VB.

Thanks.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
There are two (VBA) statements that you seem to be confusing or
misunderstanding:

1. Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This highlights the selection without affecting the toolbar button - and
is the one to use to avoid sendkeys.

2. Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This changes the toolbar button (which then allows the sendkeys to use it
to get the chosen colour) but does not affect the text.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

[Greg Maxey]

On Feb 21, 12:35 pm, Lene Fredborg
wrote:
Anthony,

You only need to combine the two lines of code as in the macro below:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

The first code line changes the highlight button to red.
The second line will apply red highlight to the selection. If no text is
selected, the second line does not make any changes to the text.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmarkwww.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word



"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:
Thanks Tony

You're right. I did not understand that difference between the two lines.
But I'm still not certain.

What then would be the sequence to create a taskbar button (say a red box,
for example) that, when clicked, would

1) Change the highlight button to red
2) Turn on red highlighting so that:
a) Highlighted text would turn red or
b) if no text is highlighted, simply turn on red highlighting so
that I can highlight as I read by dragging my cursor across unhighlighted
text?

Right now I'm using:

1) Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed (to select red and turn any
selected text to red)
2) SendKeys "{F10}" (to turn on highlighting - where my computer has been
set to use F10 to turn on highlighting).

I think you are right. It would be better not to use the sendkeys command
(especially if I want to move the macro to another computer). But I'm not
sure of the sequence that will avoid using sendkeys.

Sorry if I'm being obtuse. I'm not very familiar with VB.

Thanks.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
There are two (VBA) statements that you seem to be confusing or
misunderstanding:

1. Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This highlights the selection without affecting the toolbar button - and
is the one to use to avoid sendkeys.

2. Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This changes the toolbar button (which then allows the sendkeys to use it
to get the chosen colour) but does not affect the text.

--
Enjoy,
Tony- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Lene,

I think he wanted to change in previous highlighting to red as well.
Also (this could be due to my ToolsOptionsEdit settings) if the IP
is withing a word, even if that word is not selected, it would be
highlighted.

Try:

Sub Scratchmacro()
Dim oRng As Word.Range
Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Content
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
With oRng.Find
.Highlight = True
While .Execute
oRng.HighlightColorIndex = Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex
Wend
End With
If Selection.Range.Start Selection.Range.End Then
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End If
End Sub

AFAIK, this is as close to your ideal as you can get with VBA. You
could then use the format painter tool to continue hightlight text.

[Lene Fredborg]

Greg,

About changing the previous highlighting too: after reading the description
again now, I am sure you are right - however, I did not read it that way
first.

About the insertion point being in a word: you are right, if the option
€œWhen selecting, automatically select entire word€� in Tools Options Edit
tab is turned on, the code line "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed"
would highlight that word. I should have taken this into consideration by
making a check in the code as you did in your version - unfortunately, I
failed to notice this because I do not have that option turned on€¦

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Greg Maxey" wrote:

On Feb 21, 12:35 pm, Lene Fredborg
wrote:
Anthony,

You only need to combine the two lines of code as in the macro below:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

The first code line changes the highlight button to red.
The second line will apply red highlight to the selection. If no text is
selected, the second line does not make any changes to the text.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmarkwww.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word



"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:
Thanks Tony

You're right. I did not understand that difference between the two lines.
But I'm still not certain.

What then would be the sequence to create a taskbar button (say a red box,
for example) that, when clicked, would

1) Change the highlight button to red
2) Turn on red highlighting so that:
a) Highlighted text would turn red or
b) if no text is highlighted, simply turn on red highlighting so
that I can highlight as I read by dragging my cursor across unhighlighted
text?

Right now I'm using:

1) Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed (to select red and turn any
selected text to red)
2) SendKeys "{F10}" (to turn on highlighting - where my computer has been
set to use F10 to turn on highlighting).

I think you are right. It would be better not to use the sendkeys command
(especially if I want to move the macro to another computer). But I'm not
sure of the sequence that will avoid using sendkeys.

Sorry if I'm being obtuse. I'm not very familiar with VB.

Thanks.

Regards,
Anthony Giorgianni

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"Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message
...
There are two (VBA) statements that you seem to be confusing or
misunderstanding:

1. Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This highlights the selection without affecting the toolbar button - and
is the one to use to avoid sendkeys.

2. Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed

This changes the toolbar button (which then allows the sendkeys to use it
to get the chosen colour) but does not affect the text.

--
Enjoy,
Tony- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Lene,

I think he wanted to change in previous highlighting to red as well.
Also (this could be due to my ToolsOptionsEdit settings) if the IP
is withing a word, even if that word is not selected, it would be
highlighted.

Try:

Sub Scratchmacro()
Dim oRng As Word.Range
Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Content
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
With oRng.Find
.Highlight = True
While .Execute
oRng.HighlightColorIndex = Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex
Wend
End With
If Selection.Range.Start Selection.Range.End Then
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End If
End Sub

AFAIK, this is as close to your ideal as you can get with VBA. You
could then use the format painter tool to continue hightlight text.

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Thanks everyone for your help.

I think I'll simply to stick with using the sendkeys command. That's a neat
macro Lene but doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for. I think I'm probably
not explaining it right. All I want to be able to do is simply turn on
highlighting with a certain color with one click, avoiding having to go up
to the highlighting menu item, select the color and turn it on.

The reason is that, as a journalist, many times I'm reading a document and
want to highlight items for different importance - green = interesting but
not critical, yellow = pretty important, red = information that I must use.
So when I see something pretty important, I want to turn on yellow
highlighting with one click of a toolbar icon. Then I highlight that
(usually without selecting it first) Later I might see something that's
critical, so I want to turn on red highlighting with one click.

This does that exactly

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdYellow REM: Selects the
highlighting color yellow
SendKeys "{F5}" REM Turns on highlighting, where Word has been set to
associate F5 with turning on highlighting.

Tony suggested that using sendkeys isn't the best way to do this. It
certainly doesn't make the macro portable if I want to transfer it to
another machine without having to set F5 (as I found out when I tried to
transfer it from my home to my work machine and forgot about setting F5 to
turn on highlighting.) So I was curious if there was another way to do it.
But it's no big deal. It works fine. By the way, to make it really easy, I
created a "highlighting" toolbar with icons that are simply colored squares,
each assigned to a different color macro and one assigned to "no color" for
clearing.

Thanks again.

Regards
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.




"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
Greg,

About changing the previous highlighting too: after reading the
description
again now, I am sure you are right - however, I did not read it that way
first.

About the insertion point being in a word: you are right, if the option
"When selecting, automatically select entire word" in Tools Options
Edit
tab is turned on, the code line "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed"
would highlight that word. I should have taken this into consideration by
making a check in the code as you did in your version - unfortunately, I
failed to notice this because I do not have that option turned on.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

[Lene Fredborg]

Anthony,

I know that your can use your current macros but, anyway, I will try to
explain a little more ;-) - not least because it could make your work even
easier.

After your latest explanation I am sure that what both Tony and I started to
explain is the only thing you need - a single line of code in the macro (no
SendKeys) - and you can have a macro for each highlight color. The only
passage in your explanation that confuses me a little is "(usually without
selecting it first)" - I think you select the text you want to highlight
or?...

I (and a lot of people I have created macros for) do what you do several
times every day, i.e. apply different highlight colors to text and for that
purpose I have created a series of macros like the ones below - one per used
color. In order to make it fast and easy to apply the different colors, I
have assigned shortcuts to the individual highlight macros (they have been
added to a custom toolbar as well - with colored icons as you describe). I
have used these shortcuts that do not conflict with built-in shortcuts and
that are easy to remember:
Alt+Ctrl+Y for Yellow (wdYellow)
Alt+Ctrl+P for Pink (wdPink)
Alt+Ctrl+G for Green (wdBrightGreen)
Alt+Ctrl+B for Blue (wdTurquoise)
Alt+Ctrl+R for Red (wdRed)
Alt+Ctrl+ for no highlight (wdNoHighlight) - i.e. the macro that removes
the highlight

The _important_ thing is that when you apply the highlight via a _macro_,
you can do that _without_ first changing the highlight color of the highlight
icon. You simply do not need "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed". I
know that this line is the only one you get if you record a macro but, as
Tony said, the macro recorder is not perfect - that macro does not apply any
highlight when executed afterwards. For that purpose you need
"Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = [your color]".

So back to the start:

The following macro will change the highlight color of the selection to red
_regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the highlight icon (i.e. the
macro determines the color, not the highlight icon):

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

Correspondingly, the following macro will change the highlight color of the
selection to yellow _regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the
highlight icon:

Sub HighLight_Yellow()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
End Sub

The following macro will _remove_ any highlight from the selection
_regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the highlight icon:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight
End Sub

This way you can create a corresponding macro for each of the highlight
colors you want to use. And if you assign shortcuts, you can apply any of the
highlight colors or remove the highlight simply by pressing the shortcut
(that is what I always do). You never need to care about which color is
selected in the highlight icon.

Hope this helps.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Thanks everyone for your help.

I think I'll simply to stick with using the sendkeys command. That's a neat
macro Lene but doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for. I think I'm probably
not explaining it right. All I want to be able to do is simply turn on
highlighting with a certain color with one click, avoiding having to go up
to the highlighting menu item, select the color and turn it on.

The reason is that, as a journalist, many times I'm reading a document and
want to highlight items for different importance - green = interesting but
not critical, yellow = pretty important, red = information that I must use.
So when I see something pretty important, I want to turn on yellow
highlighting with one click of a toolbar icon. Then I highlight that
(usually without selecting it first) Later I might see something that's
critical, so I want to turn on red highlighting with one click.

This does that exactly

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdYellow REM: Selects the
highlighting color yellow
SendKeys "{F5}" REM Turns on highlighting, where Word has been set to
associate F5 with turning on highlighting.

Tony suggested that using sendkeys isn't the best way to do this. It
certainly doesn't make the macro portable if I want to transfer it to
another machine without having to set F5 (as I found out when I tried to
transfer it from my home to my work machine and forgot about setting F5 to
turn on highlighting.) So I was curious if there was another way to do it.
But it's no big deal. It works fine. By the way, to make it really easy, I
created a "highlighting" toolbar with icons that are simply colored squares,
each assigned to a different color macro and one assigned to "no color" for
clearing.

Thanks again.

Regards
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.




"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
Greg,

About changing the previous highlighting too: after reading the
description
again now, I am sure you are right - however, I did not read it that way
first.

About the insertion point being in a word: you are right, if the option
"When selecting, automatically select entire word" in Tools Options
Edit
tab is turned on, the code line "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed"
would highlight that word. I should have taken this into consideration by
making a check in the code as you did in your version - unfortunately, I
failed to notice this because I do not have that option turned on.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

[Anthony Giorgianni[_2_]]

Hey Lene

Thanks again. I'm sorry I'm not being clear . Or maybe I'm being dense :O).

When I say I don't want to select the text first, I mean that: I'm simply
reading through a document and want to turn on the highlighting tool - the
thing that changes the cursor into a virtual highlighting pen that you swipe
across any text to highlight. This avoids having to actually select the
text at all. So the combined function is 1) set the desired highlighting
color 2) turn on the highlighting tool.

So the macro would be

1) Select the highlight color (which we all know how to do)
2) Turn on the highlighting tool to transform the cursor into a highlighting
pen (which is the part I can't figure out how to do as part of the macro
without sendkeys)

Oddly, if a record a macro, I get the first step. But when I click on the
highlighting box to actually turn on the highlighting tool, that action
doesn't get recorded in the VB code.

See what I mean?

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.



"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
Anthony,

I know that your can use your current macros but, anyway, I will try to
explain a little more ;-) - not least because it could make your work even
easier.

After your latest explanation I am sure that what both Tony and I started
to
explain is the only thing you need - a single line of code in the macro
(no
SendKeys) - and you can have a macro for each highlight color. The only
passage in your explanation that confuses me a little is "(usually without
selecting it first)" - I think you select the text you want to highlight
or?...

I (and a lot of people I have created macros for) do what you do several
times every day, i.e. apply different highlight colors to text and for
that
purpose I have created a series of macros like the ones below - one per
used
color. In order to make it fast and easy to apply the different colors, I
have assigned shortcuts to the individual highlight macros (they have been
added to a custom toolbar as well - with colored icons as you describe). I
have used these shortcuts that do not conflict with built-in shortcuts and
that are easy to remember:
Alt+Ctrl+Y for Yellow (wdYellow)
Alt+Ctrl+P for Pink (wdPink)
Alt+Ctrl+G for Green (wdBrightGreen)
Alt+Ctrl+B for Blue (wdTurquoise)
Alt+Ctrl+R for Red (wdRed)
Alt+Ctrl+ for no highlight (wdNoHighlight) - i.e. the macro that removes
the highlight

The _important_ thing is that when you apply the highlight via a _macro_,
you can do that _without_ first changing the highlight color of the
highlight
icon. You simply do not need "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed". I
know that this line is the only one you get if you record a macro but, as
Tony said, the macro recorder is not perfect - that macro does not apply
any
highlight when executed afterwards. For that purpose you need
"Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = [your color]".

So back to the start:

The following macro will change the highlight color of the selection to
red
_regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the highlight icon (i.e.
the
macro determines the color, not the highlight icon):

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

Correspondingly, the following macro will change the highlight color of
the
selection to yellow _regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the
highlight icon:

Sub HighLight_Yellow()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
End Sub

The following macro will _remove_ any highlight from the selection
_regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the highlight icon:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight
End Sub

This way you can create a corresponding macro for each of the highlight
colors you want to use. And if you assign shortcuts, you can apply any of
the
highlight colors or remove the highlight simply by pressing the shortcut
(that is what I always do). You never need to care about which color is
selected in the highlight icon.

Hope this helps.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Thanks everyone for your help.

I think I'll simply to stick with using the sendkeys command. That's a
neat
macro Lene but doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for. I think I'm
probably
not explaining it right. All I want to be able to do is simply turn on
highlighting with a certain color with one click, avoiding having to go
up
to the highlighting menu item, select the color and turn it on.

The reason is that, as a journalist, many times I'm reading a document
and
want to highlight items for different importance - green = interesting
but
not critical, yellow = pretty important, red = information that I must
use.
So when I see something pretty important, I want to turn on yellow
highlighting with one click of a toolbar icon. Then I highlight that
(usually without selecting it first) Later I might see something that's
critical, so I want to turn on red highlighting with one click.

This does that exactly

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdYellow REM: Selects the
highlighting color yellow
SendKeys "{F5}" REM Turns on highlighting, where Word has been set to
associate F5 with turning on highlighting.

Tony suggested that using sendkeys isn't the best way to do this. It
certainly doesn't make the macro portable if I want to transfer it to
another machine without having to set F5 (as I found out when I tried to
transfer it from my home to my work machine and forgot about setting F5
to
turn on highlighting.) So I was curious if there was another way to do
it.
But it's no big deal. It works fine. By the way, to make it really easy,
I
created a "highlighting" toolbar with icons that are simply colored
squares,
each assigned to a different color macro and one assigned to "no color"
for
clearing.

Thanks again.

Regards
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.




"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
Greg,

About changing the previous highlighting too: after reading the
description
again now, I am sure you are right - however, I did not read it that
way
first.

About the insertion point being in a word: you are right, if the option
"When selecting, automatically select entire word" in Tools Options
Edit
tab is turned on, the code line "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed"
would highlight that word. I should have taken this into consideration
by
making a check in the code as you did in your version - unfortunately,
I
failed to notice this because I do not have that option turned on.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

[Lene Fredborg]

Yes, now - finally - I see what you mean :-)
And now I also understand what you meant by "usually without
selecting it first".

Happy highlighting!

---
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Hey Lene

Thanks again. I'm sorry I'm not being clear . Or maybe I'm being dense :O).

When I say I don't want to select the text first, I mean that: I'm simply
reading through a document and want to turn on the highlighting tool - the
thing that changes the cursor into a virtual highlighting pen that you swipe
across any text to highlight. This avoids having to actually select the
text at all. So the combined function is 1) set the desired highlighting
color 2) turn on the highlighting tool.

So the macro would be

1) Select the highlight color (which we all know how to do)
2) Turn on the highlighting tool to transform the cursor into a highlighting
pen (which is the part I can't figure out how to do as part of the macro
without sendkeys)

Oddly, if a record a macro, I get the first step. But when I click on the
highlighting box to actually turn on the highlighting tool, that action
doesn't get recorded in the VB code.

See what I mean?

Regards,

Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.



"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
Anthony,

I know that your can use your current macros but, anyway, I will try to
explain a little more ;-) - not least because it could make your work even
easier.

After your latest explanation I am sure that what both Tony and I started
to
explain is the only thing you need - a single line of code in the macro
(no
SendKeys) - and you can have a macro for each highlight color. The only
passage in your explanation that confuses me a little is "(usually without
selecting it first)" - I think you select the text you want to highlight
or?...

I (and a lot of people I have created macros for) do what you do several
times every day, i.e. apply different highlight colors to text and for
that
purpose I have created a series of macros like the ones below - one per
used
color. In order to make it fast and easy to apply the different colors, I
have assigned shortcuts to the individual highlight macros (they have been
added to a custom toolbar as well - with colored icons as you describe). I
have used these shortcuts that do not conflict with built-in shortcuts and
that are easy to remember:
Alt+Ctrl+Y for Yellow (wdYellow)
Alt+Ctrl+P for Pink (wdPink)
Alt+Ctrl+G for Green (wdBrightGreen)
Alt+Ctrl+B for Blue (wdTurquoise)
Alt+Ctrl+R for Red (wdRed)
Alt+Ctrl+ for no highlight (wdNoHighlight) - i.e. the macro that removes
the highlight

The _important_ thing is that when you apply the highlight via a _macro_,
you can do that _without_ first changing the highlight color of the
highlight
icon. You simply do not need "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed". I
know that this line is the only one you get if you record a macro but, as
Tony said, the macro recorder is not perfect - that macro does not apply
any
highlight when executed afterwards. For that purpose you need
"Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = [your color]".

So back to the start:

The following macro will change the highlight color of the selection to
red
_regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the highlight icon (i.e.
the
macro determines the color, not the highlight icon):

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

Correspondingly, the following macro will change the highlight color of
the
selection to yellow _regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the
highlight icon:

Sub HighLight_Yellow()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
End Sub

The following macro will _remove_ any highlight from the selection
_regardless_ of what color is currently shown in the highlight icon:

Sub HighLight_Red()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight
End Sub

This way you can create a corresponding macro for each of the highlight
colors you want to use. And if you assign shortcuts, you can apply any of
the
highlight colors or remove the highlight simply by pressing the shortcut
(that is what I always do). You never need to care about which color is
selected in the highlight icon.

Hope this helps.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:

Thanks everyone for your help.

I think I'll simply to stick with using the sendkeys command. That's a
neat
macro Lene but doesn't seem to do what I'm looking for. I think I'm
probably
not explaining it right. All I want to be able to do is simply turn on
highlighting with a certain color with one click, avoiding having to go
up
to the highlighting menu item, select the color and turn it on.

The reason is that, as a journalist, many times I'm reading a document
and
want to highlight items for different importance - green = interesting
but
not critical, yellow = pretty important, red = information that I must
use.
So when I see something pretty important, I want to turn on yellow
highlighting with one click of a toolbar icon. Then I highlight that
(usually without selecting it first) Later I might see something that's
critical, so I want to turn on red highlighting with one click.

This does that exactly

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdYellow REM: Selects the
highlighting color yellow
SendKeys "{F5}" REM Turns on highlighting, where Word has been set to
associate F5 with turning on highlighting.

Tony suggested that using sendkeys isn't the best way to do this. It
certainly doesn't make the macro portable if I want to transfer it to
another machine without having to set F5 (as I found out when I tried to
transfer it from my home to my work machine and forgot about setting F5
to
turn on highlighting.) So I was curious if there was another way to do
it.
But it's no big deal. It works fine. By the way, to make it really easy,
I
created a "highlighting" toolbar with icons that are simply colored
squares,
each assigned to a different color macro and one assigned to "no color"
for
clearing.

Thanks again.

Regards
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.




"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
Greg,

About changing the previous highlighting too: after reading the
description
again now, I am sure you are right - however, I did not read it that
way
first.

About the insertion point being in a word: you are right, if the option
"When selecting, automatically select entire word" in Tools Options
Edit
tab is turned on, the code line "Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex =
wdRed"
would highlight that word. I should have taken this into consideration
by
making a check in the code as you did in your version - unfortunately,
I
failed to notice this because I do not have that option turned on.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Thanks again for all your help!!!!

Regards
Anthony Giorgianni

For everyone's benefit, please reply to the group.

"Lene Fredborg" wrote in message
...
Yes, now - finally - I see what you mean :-)
And now I also understand what you meant by "usually without
selecting it first".

Happy highlighting!

---
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word