Removing highlight colors in word plus#

'Close' when done, and test it out!Р вЂќР вЂЎor your purposes, select the text you want to remove highlighting from, plus some additional un-highlighted text around it, and then run the macro. Be sure it says '' next to 'Currently assigned to:', then click 'Assign' at the bottom. I personally like to have it set to Ctrl-Alt-Shift-H. (Unless you already are a VBA programmer, RotateHighlight will probably be the only item under 'Macros' here.) Click into 'Press new shortcut key', and then press your desired shortcut key combination. Under 'Macros', select 'RotateHighlight'. Under 'Categories', scroll all the way to the bottom and select 'Macros'. In the resulting dialog box, select 'Customize Ribbon' from the left-hand list, and then click 'Customize' next to 'Keyboard shortcuts' at the bottom: > removed as follows: Select the whole document by pressing Ctrl+A and. In Word, click the tiny down-arrow-triangle with the bar over it that's to the right of the Quick Access Toolbar and select 'More Commands': On Wednesday, at 2:41:13 AM UTC-5, Stefan Blom wrote: > Highlighting applied via the Highlighting tool on the Home tab can be.

Removing highlight colors in word code#

In order to have this macro available as a keyboard shortcut any time you're working in Word, open the VBA editor (Open any Word doc and press Alt-F11) and create a code module in the Normal template:Р вЂќР’В¬opy/paste the above code into the newly created Module and save with Ctrl-S. ' highlighting is not uniform, all highlighting is removed from the selection. Also, if the selection includes text whose ' If the selected text is highlighted with anything other than these colors, ' None, yellow, green, blue, red, pink, none, yellow, green. ' Rotates highlighting of selected text between: Unfortunately, I don't know of an existing shortcut to do this.Р вЂќР вЂЎortunately, I was sufficiently frustrated by there not being a shortcut to do this, that I wrote a macro to do it for me: Sub RotateHighlight() So I have tried something like that but still without success (nothing is recognized) Select Case .RGB RGB = RGB(0, 176, 240)Р вЂќР’В«ut not this one (Case RGB(0,176,240) isn't recognized) Select Case This macro is working (the RGB is at the end of the loop, and no 'case is based on it') Select Case Is there a way to set up a shorcut (or a simplify procedure) that will be able to remove highlighting without having to set it in the ribbon? Additionally, double-clicking a word will highlight that word.

Under these conditions, when you click and drag over page text, the Highlighter tool will select just the text. )Р вЂќР’В«ut mines are of several different colors so each time I have to select the color in the ribbon which makes the shortcut useless. The behavior of the Highlighter tool changes when Enable Text Highlighting is enabled in the Preferences and you are highlighting page text (see the note below). (Ctrl + Space dremoves the styles but doesn't remove the highlightings. That's easy with the Ctrl+Alt+H shorcut if all the highlightings are of the same color. You may also remove all from the command Highlight Remove All without the prompt for selection. To stop highlighting, choose Highlight Remove, then the desired word or expression, or all. Once i am done I have to remove the highlighting. You can add words by chosing Highlight Toggle Current from the command pallet, this will highlight the word at the cursor or the selection.

Removing highlight colors in word full#

At this point, I could easily have re-created the form from scratch, but this is something I expect I will need to do in the future as well, so am hoping to discover the correct process to remove a highlight on a previously-created form.I have a 100+ pages Word document full of highlighted setences that I have to correct. If I've left anything out that might help, let me know. The document doesn't seem to recognize the highlight as existing, but it certainly shows up in every mode (print, edit, prepare, preview, etc.).

The problem now is that I cannot select the highlight itself - it seems to float as background color irrespective of any text, but Acrobat doesn't show any markup, watermark, image or any other type of object as existing in the document.

I have no comments in the document zero, zip, so locking doesn't seem to be an issue.

I mention the timing in case any updates were made to Acrobat in the interim. After getting a new computer, I opened the form again to continue working on it.

The form is fillable and has a couple of buttons (Submit Form Clear Form).

This document was created using Adobe Acrobat DC in September as I mentioned what I left out is that I used the 'Prepare Form' utility in Acrobat and highlighted some text for later attention (a placeholder of sorts).

Hello, First let me say thanks for responding! Second, I probably should have provided more details, so here are a few that might explain my conundrum a bit better: