[Paul]

I was pretty sure I had Show Formatting turned on. I went to a
different computer, and tried the same thing (selected hierarchies of
Heading paragraphs in Outline View) and the highlighting shows. Very
odd. Thanks anyway!

On Dec 3, 1:39*pm, "Stefan Blom"
wrote:
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.

"Paul" wrote:
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.