Is there any way to change the highlight colors?

[Office 2004 Test Drive User]

I'm trying to change the 15 highlight colors so I can have different ranges
--- red, orange, yellow; different shades of blue, etc.

Is there any resource in the Word "package" (Mac OS X) I can edit to do
this?

Thanks for any help.

Chris Young

 

[CyberTaz]

Perhaps the selection of colors can be modified programmatically, but there
is no resource or feature within Word to do so - the available highlighter
colors are what they are.

Alternatively, select text & use Format>Borders & Shading (or the
corresponding section of the Formatting Palette) to apply any color you
wish. Just be certain that the Apply to: list below the Preview displays the
word Text rather than paragraph (unless you're highlighting an entire para).
Not as convenient as the Highlighter tool but equally as effective

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]]

Hi Chris:

No. That area of Word is back on the old 8-bit colour standard. 15 colours
+ "None" is all you get.

Next version. Maybe. But I wouldn't hold your breath: Word 2007 only has
16 colours also

The enumeration is here:
http://office.microsoft.com/client/...2&ns=WINWORD.DEV&lcid=3081&pid=CH101492731033

You can play around with it using VBA:
Sub Macro2()
'
' Macro2 Macro
'
'
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdRed
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdRed
End Sub

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[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks very much; this let's me do just what I wanted, as shown below.
The versatility of Word is amazing!

Side note--you should be able to create new character styles with the
shading preset, to save these colors for use over and over again. See
Help on "Create a new style".