Paul
Thank you for replying. I am not sure that I explained my problem very well.
Given text that has words containing "ever", for example: ever never clever beverage reverberate, I want to highlight every word in that text that contains "ever". So, for example, I want the whole word "never" to be highlighted, and every other whole word that contains "ever".
In creating the code, I assumed, for example, that "never" was the parent of "ever", but that apparently is not the case.