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Just another small way to customize the appearance of your Mac, but no, at the moment there is no way to make a similar change to highlighting text in iOS, though in apps like iBooks you can apply different highlight colors for notes in iOS. Word 2016 comes with a digital highlighter pen that lets you mark up and colorize the text in your document without damaging the computer’s monitor. To highlight text, abide by these steps: Click the Home tab. In the Font group, click the Text Highlight button. Word is now in Highlighting mode.
I am working on a very large bullet-pointed outline in which I frequently add highlighted text. If I highlight all the text on a bullet point, word automatically highlights the bullet point as well. I know how to manually remove the highlight from the bullet point each time this happens, but this is annoying and time consuming.
Does anyone know how to prevent the bullet point from becoming highlighted? I am pretty sure the issue is that the each bullet point takes on some of the characteristics of its associated text. Perhaps the answer is to somehow turn off this feature? If it matters, I am completely fine with making it impossible to highlight the bullet points themselves anywhere in the document/in other programs-even manually. I really can't see why anyone would every want the bullet points themselves highlighted. It looks sloppy and distracts from the text that you are trying to draw attention to with a highlight.
EDIT #1: To clarify, I am very much familiar with the fact that Word by default makes its bullet points take on the styles of their associated text, including highlights. It has always somewhat irked me (given that, as discussed above, I find the resulting highlighting of bullet points distracting); however, I previously have been able to manually fix the issue. For example, I sometimes would highlight on part of the text (partially fixing the issue ex ante-but not allowing me to highlight all the text I wanted to at once). Other times, I would fix the issue ex post: I would highlight all the text, resulting in the bullet point becoming highlighted, but would then delete the bullet point-bringing my text into line with the previous unhighlighted bullet point-then click 'enter' to create a new unhighlighted bullet point (because the text associated with the previous bullet point was not completely highlighted). Now, however, I am dealing with a very long document and repetitively manually fixing the issue would be far too inefficient.
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Thus, I am now looking for a solution that preferably somehow fixes/prevents the bullet point highlighting without me having to make individual changes each time I highlight all the text associated with a bullet point. This solution could be an ex ante solution-e.g., changing the default behavior of the bullet points so that they no longer take on the styling of their associated text. However, I would also be happy with a solution that somehow fixes the bullet-point highlighting ex post and en masse-e.g., through some advanced use of the find and replace feature. Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated! EDIT #2: I also just had another idea (but would like to hear whether people think it is feasible): Perhaps I could create a Word macro that, upon activation, would either: (i) highlight only the associated text of a bullet point-leaving the bullet point unhighlighted-or (ii) automatically remove the highlighting of a bullet point while leaving the associated text highlighted.
That is helpful!:D But it still doesn't fully solve the issue in that I have a very large document and need to highlight the text associated with THOUSANDS of bullet points. It is significantly more work if, for each highlight, I need to precisely select the all of the text except the last character. Preferably, I want to be able to simply triple click a word in a given paragraph I want to highlight and have that result in selection of all the relevant text without highlighting the end-of-paragraph mark-that way I can fairly quickly do this to all the relevant paragraphs while holding 'ctrl'/'command' and highlight all the relevant text at once without highlighting the bullet points. Do you know if there is a way to prevent to prevent triple clicks from highlighting the end-of-paragraph marks?
I semi-figured out how to do it with a Word macro (VBA). The below will highlight only the text (and not the bullet point) of the paragraph/associated text where the cursor is. You can keybind the macro to make this pretty fast. However, this is not the fastest fix because it doesn't allow you to highlight en masse, but it certainly is way faster than doing it manually. Hope this can help someone who runs into the same problem that I had!