Do you mean text to which you applied a coloured background, or text that
you selected?

I don't think any version of Word has had a way of copying and pasting the
former, with Word 2003, you can definitely select non contiguous sections of
text (using the Ctrl button) and copy and paste them into another document.
They will be pasted into that document in the order (timewise) that they
were selected, which may not be the order in which they appear in the
original document.

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Hope this helps.

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"KTJ" wrote in message
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In older versions of Word, I was able to collect text that I highlighted
using the highlighting button into another document. I can't see how to
do
that in Word 2003. Was that function removed? If not, how do I do it?
Karen