Hi all, I am a complete noob here and my Office word skills are limited, so I really am hoping for some help.

I have created a medium sized how to guide in a word document utilising bookmarks and Hyperlinks. Clicking on the hyperlink takes you to a said area in the document. The area of text needs to be highlighted in bold or a colour to identify the text when the hyperlink is clicked.

I have spent a few wks looking for ways around this, but I can't find anything. A Macro seems the best way to implement this. Is anyone able to assist and maybe supply me with a Macro that would fix this issue. Cheers

What do you mean by "area' and "the text" - a header, a paragraph, a chapter?

June7 cheers for the reply. The document has several tables within it, which are not uniform throughout the doc. I need to highlight various parts of the tables throughout the doc, providing formating details for users of said areas. These are highlighted via hyperlinks and bookmarks. Hopefully that provides a better picture.

Yes, it does sound like a job for a macro but there likely would need to be more than one macro.

Say for example, clicking on something runs a macro and the target content gets highlighted in Bold before the macro ends. Then the user moves the selection point - but the bolded text would remain bolded because there isn't a command to change it back as the selection moves away.

Perhaps the de-selecting could happen automatically if the target area was defined with a Content Control as well as a bookmark. Then an OnExit macro could be implemented. For instance, if you place Rich Text Content Controls around some text, you can put these macros in your ThisDocument module.
The bookmark shouldn't define the entire text in the ContentControl, just be contained somewhere inside it.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Guessed, thank you so much for your time. Unfortunately I can't get the macro to work. Any chance I can forward you a similar scenario of what I am trying to do. No worries at all if that's not possible. Hopefully then you can tell me where I am going wrong.

I sent you a private message if you wanted to email the file to me for checking.

The code I supplied must go into the ThisDocument module for it to work. Then it is simply a case of adding rich text content controls around the text you want to highlight whenever the selection is inside that range.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Guessed I have replied, just incase it has gone into your junk folder 👍

Sorry for the slow response. I've been away on holidays.

Looking at your sample doc, the first thing I noticed was that you didn't place either of macros in the ThisDocument module as I said you needed to in both above posts. You might have more success if you try that.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Guessed, pinged you an email. If this is not possible can you let me know, so I can try something else 👍.

Put the macros in your ThisDocument Module as I've already advised.

Put the Content Control around the range you indicated with your bookmarks. Then collapse the bookmarks to be positioned after the first character inside the Content Control.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia