Hi, Paul. Good news and bad news. The good news is the code you referred me to to unhighlight specific words works like a champ. So I figured I'd use it again, with the adjustments you recommended, to highlight another set of adverbs. That worked, too! Cool!

The bad news is this: the first macro we discussed--the one that uses wildcards in the find-and-replace function--does something odd. When the word found is the first word in a paragraph, the macro highlights not only it but the last word of the previous paragraph! I tried changing the .MatchWholeWords condition to True but that didn't fix the problem.

With just this one problem outstanding, I'm thrilled that things are going so well.