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Further to my previous posting regarding some results I found whilst
building the Editioning dialog allowing multiple editions to be built from a
single document using highlighting to mark the texts, I have some
refinements of knowledge.
1) Paragraph marks are capable of holding a highlight property
2) Word auto-trims your ranges no matter what autocorrect or other settings
you have set or cleared, making it impossible mark some spaces or paragraph
marks without a lot of silliness.
3) The simplest way to defeat 2 is to use assign a shortcut to a simple
macro that reads
Public Sub Stamp()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
End Sub
4) Even after the highlight has been correctly applied, Word does not
display the highlight under certain conditions. Some of these conditions
are:
* if its a para mark
* if it is a space starting the highlight range that has been orphaned onto
its own line.
5) To check whether a highlight is applied, in the immediate window of the
VBE type
? Selection.range.highlightcolorindex
If the answer is not 0, the range has a highlight. To check which color, you
need to use the object browser on the wdcolorindex definitions.
Steve Hudson , HDK List MVP
Principal Technical Writer
Wright Technologies Pty Ltd (Aus)
EyeSpring - the future of graphics has been created.
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