Highlighting Bulletted text

[Jogger Bob]

I cannot for the life of me figure out why when I number
items in a large document and then want to highlight
certain ones the highlight bridges the gap between the
text and the number on some and on others just highlights
the text (which is what I want to happen). Does anyone
know why this happens. In one document with about 100
bulleted and numbered sections some are bridged and some
are not. The only way around those that are bridged is
to un hightlight and then turn on the highlighter button
so that you can carefully work backward on the line or
paragraph until you are within just a few letters of the
beginning of the sentence and then brus the last few
letters. This does not always work but can with
patience. Does anyone know how to get the thing to work
on just the text all the time?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Jogger,

I have to admit I've never noticed this, but from a quick
test it looks like, as soon as the paragraph mark is
included in the selection the number belonging to that
paragraph is highlighted. That would make sense, from a Word
point-of-view.

But I think I've found a work-around for you:

- Position the mouse pointer just in front of the first
character you want to highlight

- Hold down ALT on the keyboard

- Drag the mouse down and to the right until you've selected
the entire block of text you want to highlight (notice how
the ALT key changes how Word selects text!)

- Now apply the highlight.

On my machine, the numbers are not highlighted.

I cannot for the life of me figure out why when I number
items in a large document and then want to highlight
certain ones the highlight bridges the gap between the
text and the number on some and on others just highlights
the text (which is what I want to happen). Does anyone
know why this happens. In one document with about 100
bulleted and numbered sections some are bridged and some
are not. The only way around those that are bridged is
to un hightlight and then turn on the highlighter button
so that you can carefully work backward on the line or
paragraph until you are within just a few letters of the
beginning of the sentence and then brus the last few
letters. This does not always work but can with
patience. Does anyone know how to get the thing to work
on just the text all the time?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Jogger Bob]

Thanks much for the help. I have been working around it
by painting the text gradually from the end to the
beginning and if I am careful the bullet does not get
dragged into the frey.

Bob

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACT]

If you use the following macro, it will apply background colour to just the
text of the paragraph in which the selection is located when you then click
on the highlight button. That's not quite the same thing as Highlighting,
but may suit your purpose.

Sub Highlight()
'
' Highlight Macro
' Applies color highlighting to the selection
'
Dim myrange As Range
Set myrange = Selection.Paragraphs(1).Range
myrange.End = myrange.End - 1
If myrange.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAqua Then
myrange.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
Else
myrange.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAqua
End If
End Sub

If you click a second time on the highlighting button, the background colour
that was applied by this macro will be removed.


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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP