Why does Word Highlighting deselect text?

Question

Why is it that any time you change the Highlighting of text in a Word doc (or Outlook email editor) the Selection is lost, and the text cursor moves to the end of the selection?  ALL OTHER formatting commands leave the selection active.  It's been this way through multiple releases of Word (at least 2003 and 2010, my current version).  Any chance this'll ever get fixed?

Or is this an option that can be changed?

Answer 1

It should be fixed, it annoys the **** out of me...

Answer 2

I decided to use the link for a live chat with a MS Tech for Word 2010.

I had to press for a an escalation to the issue (surprise... surprise) and for a case #, however the agent is going to escalate the issue.  I will check back from time to time to see if the situation has been resolved and post here.

Thank you for posting the question.  One person can make a difference... we just gotta bug em'...LOL

 'Cause I made them to.   So there!  Let THAT be a lesson to 'em...lol

-fryer

P.S. @ eh168... I hope you didn't mind that I hijacked your text to help with my discussion with the agent...lol

@ Greg  You were exactly on the money.  When I chatted with the agent she (or MS) did not consider it broken.  I told her that it was in my strong opinion it is broken because it wastes time and productivity when you have to go back and reselect items.   Btw...I tried using the Macros function but I am definitely a newbie... I didn't know how to step by step do what you are suggesting.

Answer 3

I don't mean to be snippy, but don't hold your breath.  Microsoft does'nt usually provide "definitive" answers here.  It is highly unlikely that they consider it broken, so it is equally unlikely to be elevated to to the level of a hotfix, service pack or anything else.

Answer 4

Greg,

Thanks for the reply, but I'm hoping for a definitive answer from Microsoft one way or the other.  Better still, a hotfix or fixing it with the next service packs.

In the mean time, I'll just have to stick to setting the highlighting last among any format applications.

Answer 5

And it is still that way in Word2013.  I can't definatively say it is broken and I doubt it will ever be changed.  You can highlight with a macro and retain the selection:

Sub ScratchMacro()

'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey

Dim oRng As Word.Range

Set oRng = Selection.Range

oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow

End Sub