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Default Highlight (Shading Color) entire paragraphs in Outline View

It doesn't matter if you have Show Formatting on or not; you still won't see
all *paragraph* formatting in Outline (or Normal) view.

On the other hand, if you apply shading to *text* (instead of to the actual
paragraph) that will display even in Outline view.

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Stefan Blom
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"Paul" wrote in message
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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.