Is it possible to change the preselected highlight colors?

[j123]

I'm using Microsoft Word 2003 and would like to change the colors that are in
the highlight menu. The existing colours are either too dark or too harsh
and bright. Is there a way new colours can be added or the existing colors
edited?

 

[Greg Maxey]

Unfortunately no. You can use shading in lieu of highlighting and if you do,
my Addin might be useful:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Highlighter.htm

 

[Nasrine]

Great question! I have a similar one. At my work, we have just moved to Word
2007, and the first highlighting that I did was by pressing on the arrow
beside the highlight tool and I was offered the same colour options as are
available under font colour. It was great and I highlighted a section with a
nice light shade of grey, but the next time I pressed on the highlighter I
only got the normal 15 harsher colours. If it happened once, it surely should
be possible at other times. Can any experts tell me how?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You probably used text shading rather than the Highlighter, which has never
offered more colors than those you see now.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Nasrine]

I am sure that I pressed the highlight arrow, but even if not, how do I get
access to text shading instead? (I don't get any help on text shading when
pressing F1; I only get the same help text as text highlighting.)

 

[Jay Freedman]

Text shading is applied with the "paint can" button in the Paragraph section
of the Home ribbon. To make it easier, though, download the Highlighter
add-in from http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Highlighter.htm.