Change available color choices for highlighting in Word?

[jatobrien]

The highlighting colors in Word are so saturated that when the document is
printed, it is often hard to read highlighted text. Is there a way to select
or add different colors? Something similar to the "more colors" option that
is available for shading or filling? I'm using Word 2003.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Using shading is the only alternative (you can define a specific color as a
character style). This has been a common complaint for several versions, not
remedied (AFAIK) even in Word 2007.