Thread: [Solved] Macro to highlight text between 2 points in word 2010
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Old 04-24-2013, 11:34 PM
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Why do you need a macro? A wildcard Find/Replace can do the same job, where:
Find = xxx(*)yyy
Replace = \1
and the replacement attributes have the desired highlighting set.

Note: the above even deletes the markers as part of the process. If you don't want that, change \1 to ^&.
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