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limit formatting but keep highlighting
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? |
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limit formatting but keep highlighting
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:08:01 -0800, Robin
wrote: 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? This isn't exactly the same as highlighting, because you can't "paint" it onto text, but the end result looks the same: Define a new style, name it Highlight, and make it a Character style. Click the Format button at the bottom of the New Style dialog and choose Border. On the Shading tab of the Border dialog, select yellow (or any other color -- you get a lot more choices than with the real highlighting tool). Click OK to exit all the dialogs. Make sure the Highlight style is one of the allowed styles, and apply it to any selected text. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robin" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Thanks very much. Although this is not perfect , it will work ok (e.g. if you
want to highlight header text, it will change the text size, etc). Perhaps Microsoft can allow the highlighter to be used even if limited formatting has been turned on in their next version of Word... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robin" wrote in message ... 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? |
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limit formatting but keep highlighting
No, it will *not* change the text size provided you have defined the
character style as Default Paragraph Font + your formatting and provided that the text size is part of the definition of the heading style. Applying a character style will remove direct font formatting (such as bold or italic applied to part of a paragraph) but will not affect any font formatting that is part of the style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robin" wrote in message ... Thanks very much. Although this is not perfect , it will work ok (e.g. if you want to highlight header text, it will change the text size, etc). Perhaps Microsoft can allow the highlighter to be used even if limited formatting has been turned on in their next version of Word... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robin" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Hello. You are right - the formatting does not change. Not sure what happened
with my previous experiment, but it works as you say now. Thanks very much... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No, it will *not* change the text size provided you have defined the character style as Default Paragraph Font + your formatting and provided that the text size is part of the definition of the heading style. Applying a character style will remove direct font formatting (such as bold or italic applied to part of a paragraph) but will not affect any font formatting that is part of the style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robin" wrote in message ... Thanks very much. Although this is not perfect , it will work ok (e.g. if you want to highlight header text, it will change the text size, etc). Perhaps Microsoft can allow the highlighter to be used even if limited formatting has been turned on in their next version of Word... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Robin" wrote in message ... 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? |
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