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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default limit formatting but keep highlighting

Instead of trying to use the highlighter, use text shading. Define a
character style as Default Paragraph Font + Pattern: Clear (Yellow).* You
can create as many styles as you need highlight colors. Then add these to
the permitted styles.

*To do this, select some text, go to Format | Borders and Shading, and on
the Shading tab, choose a color, making sure that Text is selected for
"Apply to." Then click New Style... in the Styles and Formatting task pane,
choose Character for the style type, and type a name for the style.

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"Robin" wrote in message
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Hi. I am limitting the formatting in word 2003. I have reduced the styles

to
what I really need. I would like to be able to use the hightlighter.

However,
I cannot find this style. When I turn on the limiting styles, I cannot use
the highlighter. Any ideas how to fix this?