How to add multiple different color highlight buttons to toolbar

Guessed · #1 10-14-2020, 07:26 PM

You would need macros to do this via buttons since they aren't built-in. You can do a series of macros to toggle the colours. There is a finite number of highlight colours but if you know the available constant names for the colours then you just build another macro for each one.

Code:

Sub HL1()
  SetHiLite wdYellow
End Sub

Sub HL2()
  SetHiLite wdBrightGreen
End Sub

Function SetHiLite(iCol As Long)
  If Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = iCol Then
    Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight
  Else
    Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = iCol
  End If
End Function

nhcowboy1 · #2 10-16-2020, 03:39 PM

Andrew - Thank you for your prompt reply, but I still have some questions . . .

First, I don't understand the longer macro - the one that begins with "function".
Second, how do I find out the names of the different colors?
And, finally, how do I create buttons in the different colors - one for each highlight color?

Thank you!

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