Unless you click on 'Replace', 'Replace All' or 'Find Next', stead of clicking on 'Cancel', all you're doing is aborting the Find/Replace, so nothing will be recorded. If you look at your recorded code, that's what you'd see - nothing about colours, etc. - probably just an empty macro.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]