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Suzanne S. Barnhill
 
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Default one bullet is highlighted

As Jezebel was trying to explain, it's not anything visible that's
highlighted but the paragraph mark itself. This results from a peculiarity
(I would call it a bug) in Word such that when you highlight anything at the
end of the paragraph, even though you have nonprinting characters displayed
and carefully select text excluding the paragraph mark, the paragraph mark
gets formatted anyway. You then have to remove the formatting from the
paragraph mark explicitly. Jezebel was suggesting a situation where this had
happened and the highlighting had subsequently been removed from the
highlighted text or (more likely) the highlighted text itself had been
deleted, leaving only the paragraph mark highlighted.

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"CLY" wrote in message
...
The last word/paragraph was not highlighted. Actually, highlight was not

used
within the whole document, just don't understand why when that paragraph

got
bulleted, the bullet itself was highlighted in yellow. Thanks.
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cly


"Jezebel" wrote:

The bullet takes some of its formatting -- including highlighting --

from
the paragraph mark. Although you can't hightlight the paragraph mark on

its
own, you can highlight it along with the final word of the paragraph (at
which point, the bullet will be highlighted also); if you then delete

the
highlighted word, the bullet still shows the highlighting.

You can fix it by selecting the entire paragraph and toggling the
highlighting; or display non-print characters, select the paragraph

mark,
and unhighlight it.




"CLY" wrote in message
...
I don't know what caused it, one of the bullets on a bulleted list was
highlighted in yellow. I reviewed the non print characters and the
formatting
codes but got no clue for it. I also made all possible attempts to

get
rid
of the highlighting but was not successful. Can anyone tell me what I

did
wrong? Thanks a lot.
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cly