hide highlight formatting when printing

[JT]

Is there a way to highlight text so it is visible when viewing the document
on your computer but not have the highlighting show up when printed?

 

[JT]

My guess is that my request below is not possible. Alternatively, I guess
I will have to get by using the text effects (marching red ants, las vegas
lights, etc).

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi JT

You could achieve almost the same effect using a character style (say,
char_highlight) with a background shading. Before printing you would need to
replace your char_highlight style with, say, char_hidehighlight which
doesn't have the shading), and afterwards swap back - Find > Replace will do
this, but you'd probably want to set up a macro.

There is a trick to setting up the shaded character style - apply the
shading (Format > Borders and Shading) to some selected text, then create a
new character style with the text still selected.

 

[JT]

Thanks. That's a great suggestion and I'll use it in the future. However
I need something more automatic right now. I maintain a price book that is
used by our sales force (not all of whom could handle styles). I want web
hyperlinks to be easily visible on screen but transparent when printed. I
would prefer highlighting but text effects will get me by. Too bad we
can't extend the text effects with plug-ins (maybe you can with 2003 but
I'm using 2002).