Wavy underline for errors in Word

[Dr Melvyn Kettle]

I have less than perfect vision and I sometimes miss the wavy red underline
for spelling errors in Word. I also miss the green wavy underline for
grammatical errors. Is it possible to replce these underlines with block
highlights to make errors more visible I have asked thus question before and
some kind person responded. Unfortunately, I could not open the likns
contained in the reply in my browser (I have two browsers and neither would
work). If someone can provide assistance would he/she do so direct to my
e-mail address at (e-mail address removed). Many thanks.

Dr Melvyn Kettle

 

[Greg Maxey]

Dr. Kettle,

No. You cannot replace the wavy underlines with highlighting.

However, there are some things that you could to help you detect spelling
errors.

You could run the following macro that would add highlighting to any
existing spelling errors (flagged with wavy underlines or not) in the
document (actually as written only in the current storyrange):

Sub SuperFlagErrors()
Dim oSp As Word.Range
Dim oGe As Word.Range
For Each oSp In ActiveDocument.Range.SpellingErrors
oSp.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
Next oSp
End Sub

Then after you corrected your error you could run this macro to clear the
hightlighting:

Sub RemoveSuperFlagsAfterCorrections()
Dim oSp As Word.Range
Dim oRng As Word.Range
Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
With oRng.Find
.Highlight = True
While .Execute
If oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen Then
If oRng.SpellingErrors.Count = 0 Then
oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdAuto
End If
End If
Wend
End With
End Sub

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