Greg/Suzanne,

Thanks for the rapid response, I will try tonight. Btw, 3 minutes is fast
from my perspective.

before I try the hints can you explain what is meant by:

^p and [!^13] ?

sorry to be ignorant.

"Greg Maxey" wrote:

I concede :-). With 150 pages of dummy text and about 25% of it highlighted
the process took about 3 minutes ;-(



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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
My "very short" passage was my lorem ipsum AutoText, which is a
little over a page. Given the amount of time the Replace operation
took, I would not fancy using it on a document of even 20 pages, much
less 150!


"Greg" wrote in message
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Suzanne,

Your sample while "very short" was obviously longer than mine which
didn't include a paragraph mark. My intent with the method I
proposed was to display the highlighted text and maintain the
spacial relationship in the document. I see the error of my ways
and a better way to that end would be to use [!^13] vice * in the
find what block. Your method is on the mark for displaying the
highlighted text condensed together.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I tried this on a very short passage, and the Replace operation
took quite a long time, leaving the highlighted sections followed
by hundreds of spaces extending out beyond the margin. If I instead
leave the "Find what" box blank (no need to use wildcards) and
replace with a space, then all the highlighted text remains, each
chunk separated from the next by a space. I had highlighted single
words, but if there are paragraphs highlighted, you might want to
use ^p instead of a space to separate them. I found that that
worked better when I had highlighted paragraphs or parts of
paragraphs.

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"Greg" wrote in message
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Eric,

You can use EditReplace to make something work for you.

Save a copy of your document first!!!

For example if you only want to display and print highligthed text
and maintain the spacial relationship between text, you could use
the following method.

EditReplaceMoreUse Wildcards.

Click the FormatHighlight button
Click the FormatHightlight button again.

Below the find what field you should see "not highlight"

Type a * in the find what field

Type a single space in the Replace with field.

Click replace all.


You can use the undo button (or CTRL+z) to restore the changes.

"Troubled!!" wrote:

Hi,

I am reviewing a 150 point document and am highlighting the key
points. I would like at the end of it to display and print just
the highlighted text component ie, hide the unhighlighted bits.

I have tried to use the autosummarise function, but it doesn't
only me to select a display just highlighted text.

I am using Word 2000, please help or let me know another approach.

Thanks

Eric.