Word - bookmark with yellow text 1

[Andrzejek]

In Word, how do you set a bookmark so when you go to that bookmark and enter a text, the text will be highlighted in yellow color?


---- Andy

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

 

[macropod]

Unless you type within the bookmarked range, you can't. Anything added immediately after it will revert to the paragraph default.

Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

 

[MakeItSo]

I just did some testing. It seems to work just fine if you create your own "goto bookmark" macro:

Selection.GoTo wdGoToBookmark, Name:="test"
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow

Cheers,
MakeItSo

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[Andrzejek]

I tried your suggestion with this:

Selection.GoTo wdGoToBookmark, Name:="TEST"
Selection.TypeText Text:="Type this"
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow

and this

Selection.GoTo wdGoToBookmark, Name:="TEST"
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Selection.TypeText Text:="Type this"

But I still cannot get the typed text to be highlighted in yellow... :-(


---- Andy

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

 

[MakeItSo]

I tested it by running the macro to jump to the bookmark, then typed manually some text.
If you want to also set the text programmatically, this works just fine:

With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("test").Range
    .Text = "This is a test"
    .HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
End With

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[Andrzejek]

That did the trick, than you MakeItSo



---- Andy

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.