It's really important to be able to select the highlighting colors from a large color gamut. I will only use three colors (depending on the importance of the highlighted keyword), and these colors need to be very shallow/light, almost unnoticeable. The colors in the WdColorIndex are very strong. For red, there are only two options, with no light option at all.

While searching Google, I found Greg Maxey's highlighter script, which is based on changing the text shading (Shading.BackgroundPatternColor), giving you endless options in terms of color gamut:

gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/highlighter.html

Paul, is there a way to make your initial version of the script work with 'Shading.BackgroundPatternColor' instead of 'HighlightColorIndex'? I tried to do that myself, but nothing seemed to work - i'm simply lost here.

This would be very helpful!

Thank you,
Alex