[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

This is because not all paragraph formatting is shown in Outline view (or
Normal view). Switch to Print Layout view after you've applied shading to a
paragraph and you'll see that it's the it just doesn't show in Outline
view.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Paul" wrote in message
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In Outline View, if I try to select an entire hierarchy of headings
and apply highlighting ("Shading Color"), it doesn't work. Triple
clicking to select any heading paragraph also ignores highlighting.
However, highlighting works if I select a word.

Is there a way to highlight entire paragraphs, series of paragraphs,
or ideally, entire Outline View hierarchies?

I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP.