Know how Excel has a feature called Conditional Formatting. Well I was wondering if there was something in Word that I can only describe as Conditional Highlighting.

I have several large documents that have to reference several different subject areas. I also have to be able to show my boss how these areas are covered in these documents. I was hoping there was something, perhaps a toggle that can be created, where I can select it and say; "Here are the areas that deal with Security...Here are the areas that deal with Validation...etc...

Any ideas?

Word doesn't have anything equivalent to that. I'd suggest providing separate, highlighted, copies if needs be.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

One approach could be to add paragraph styles. When you need the highlighting for the boss, include different colours in the style definition; when you just need the content, update the style definitions so they all use the default text colour. (the same technique can sometimes be handy for highlighting changes between versions)