Highlight the paragraph then edit the font - usually this is located in the home section of Word 07 - also in the same section there will be colour text colour and highlight colour choose.

What is text highlight colour. You can also turn on the Background Highlight toggle to highlight the background instead. Select the text and click the arrow on the border button in the Paragraph group on the Home tab and then choose the Borders and Shading command. Make sure the Shading tab is displayed.

To make things easier when using the background highlight color the color of the text is automatically picked for you white or dark depending on the highlight color. If you use a consistent keyword it is easy to find. Purple 990099 text on a white FFFFFF background.

The colors appear to be hard-wired into Word You can however highlight text in a different way if you prefer. If a text editor makes it easy to search the way Vim does then I think comments can work well for this. Yellow FFFF00 text on a Prussian blue 003366 background.

I will admit I have not had the need to dive into rich text. Open the theme file and find the key that says. Below is an example of the how to use the mark tag and its result.

This colour is not to be confused with red wine that may make its way onto documents. Use a light highlight color if you plan to print the document by using a monochrome palette or dot-matrix printer. I resolved the problem by selecting the grey text and pressing CTRL and Space Bar.

How do you change the highlight color on text. The text had a grey background and there was no option of highlight back to a no colour of white. Hopefully what I am looking to do can be done.