How to highlight while typing

Question

is there any way to type and highlight at the same time without using the mouse. I used ctrl+alt+H but all it did was to take or show me where the highlight icon was. thanks

Answer 1

When you created the style, did you choose "New documents based on the [whatever] template"? Also, presumably the keyboard shortcuts were stored in the Normal template, so they would be available globally.

Answer 2

One more thing is needed: to assign keyboard shortcuts to turn the highlighting style on and off.

Go to File > Options > Customize Ribbon and click the Keyboard shortcut Customize button in the bottom left corner.

In the Customize Keyboard dialog, click Styles in the Categories list, and then click the name you assigned to your style in the Styles list.

Click in the "Press new shortcut key" box and press the shortcut combination you want to use to start highlighting, make sure that Normal.dotm is selected in the "Save changes in" box, and click the Assign button.

Now click the Default Paragraph Font style in the Styles list. In the "Press new shortcut key" box, press the shortcut combination you want to use to stop highlighting. Click the Assign button and then click the Close button.

When you exit from Word, if you're prompted to save changes to Normal.dotm, click Yes.

Answer 3

To remove the highlight, select the text and press CTRL+Spacbar.

Answer 4

Click on the DIalog Launcher at the right hand end of the Styles Gallery on the Home tab of the ribbon and then click on New Style

In the Create New Style from Formatting dialog, give your style a Name and from the Style Type dropdown, select Character

Then click on the Format dropdown and select Border

Then in the Borders and Shading dialog, go to the Shading tab and select the colour of the highlight that you want to use, then click on OK.

Then, back in the Modify Style dialog, check the Add to the Styles Gallery box and select the radio button for "New documents based on this template"

Then, when you select the Highlight style from the Styles Gallery, the text that you have selected, or then type, will have that shading.

Answer 5

I figured that adding the style to the Gallery was probably good enough.