Find.Highlight Property

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True if highlight formatting is included in the find criteria. Read/write Long.

Syntax

expression.Highlight

expression   A variable that represents a Find object.

Remarks

The Highlight property can return or be set to True, False, or wdUndefined. The wdUndefined value can be used with the Find object to ignore the state of highlight formatting in the selection or range that is searched.

Example

This example finds all instances of highlighted text in the active document and removes the highlight formatting by setting the Highlight property of the Replacement object to False.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Dim rngTemp As Range

Set rngTemp = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=0)
With rngTemp.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Highlight = True
With .Replacement
.ClearFormatting
.Highlight = False
End With
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll, Forward:=True, FindText:="", _
ReplaceWith:="", Format:=True
End With

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