Changing highlight color - macro?

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Hello All

In Word 2000, I routinely need to use different highlighter colors within
the same document and thought I would create a macro to be able to change
the highlighter color quickly without having to use the color pull-down
menu.

I have been successful except for one thing: When I click on the macro
button I created on the toolbar, the highlighter color changes as I want BUT
the highlighter then turns off for some reason. That means I then have to
move the cursor over to the highlighter button and click it to turn the
highlighter back on - an annoying second step. If I try to incorporate this
step into the macro, it does not accept it. In fact, recording a macro that
ONLY turns the highlighter on appears not to work.

Is there a shortcut key combination or some other bit of code I can add to
my color-change macros to ensure that the highlighter either does not turn
off or is turned back on after the color is changed?

Thanks.


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Anthony Giorgianni

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[Anthony Giorgianni]

Oh here is one of the macros, incase this helps:

Sub Green()
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
End Sub

Whether I run this starting with highlight on or run it with highlighter
off, the highlighter is turned off at the end.


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[Jonathan West]

Could you show us the code you have produced so far? That would make it
easier to reproduce the problem and see what needs to be added.

 

[Anthony Giorgianni]

Yes Jonathan - thanks. I posted the code as a follow-up. But I got it
figured out. What I did was assign a keyboard shortcut (overwriting F5 in
this case) to turn on highlighting. For some reason I could not get macro
recorder to record the keystroke either. So I manually entered it using the
VB editor and came up with this:

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdPink
SendKeys "{F5}"

I made five of these and put colored icons on my taskbar next to the
highlighter button. I also made one for removing highlighting. To wit:

Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight
SendKeys "{F5}"

This works fine. I still can't figure why a simple
"Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdPink" should shut the highlight off.
Seems strange, since I did not include any command to shut it off.


Thanks again.


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Anthony Giorgianni

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