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Replace specific highlight colour applied in text while keeping others.

Anonymous
2017-10-11T17:27:10+00:00

I have a document with passages highlighted in two different colours. Now I want to replace words highlighted in green with a bold format, but with no highlighting anymore. Is there a way to do this and keeping words highlighted in yellow as they are?

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-17T08:48:19+00:00

    Too difficult. I'm afraid I will have to replace all highlighting manually. Cannot believe MS has a feature in Word that has not been consequently implemented.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-10-11T18:07:01+00:00

    Thanks for the quick reply. I will need to work on it since I am not so good with macros.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-11T17:46:11+00:00

    This free book: Computer Tools for Editors (and Proofreaders) by Paul Beverley, LCGI http://www.archivepub.co.uk/book.html

    is a collection of over 400 macros used by this guy for proofreading.

    If you are willing to do the find/replace one at time you can use the existing FindHighlight macro and the HighLightMinus and HighLightPlus to change the color. Right now these macros are generic. If you want to edit them to make them color specific things could go faster.

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