highlight in Word 2000

[Lyn]

is it possible to add more colors to the highlight button?
(In particular, I would like a light orange!)

 

[Jay Freedman]

is it possible to add more colors to the highlight button?
(In particular, I would like a light orange!)

You can't add any colors to the highlight button, but you can put buttons on
a custom toolbar to apply background shading (the same thing you get on the
Shading tab of the Format > Borders and Shading dialog) by running macros
like these:

Public Sub PaleYellowHilite()
Selection.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = _
wdColorLightYellow
End Sub

Public Sub PaleBlueHilite()
Selection.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = _
wdColorLightBlue
End Sub

Public Sub PaleGreenHilite()
Selection.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = _
wdColorLightGreen
End Sub

Public Sub PaleOrangeHilite()
Selection.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = _
wdColorLightOrange
End Sub

Here are a couple of pages that tell you how to install macros and how to
make buttons for them:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm

The fun part is making icons to represent the macros:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomButtonImages.htm

 

[Lyn]

Thanks so much for this advice Jay. It would be more fun
to play with this is I wasn't trying to finish this PhD
thesis in time to graduate in a month!

I'll give it a shot...

Thanks again, Lyn