I do a lot of different color highlighting in my documents. I want to put two or more highlight buttons on the toolbar with different colors.



It's easy enough to add a second instance of the highlight button to the toolbar. But if I do this, whatever color I select in the first highlight button is also shown in the second highlight button.

I need a way to make each highlight button display a different color.

Any ideas?

If macros are supported in your version of Word, you should be able to create macros that apply the desired highlighting color.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Thank you for that, Stefan. I appreciate it. Word 2011 for Mac does support macros - I will see if that solution works.

Thanks again

It's really not a complex task with a macro. Try the following two macros:

Sub CustomHighlightOne()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
End Sub

Sub CustomHighlightTwo()
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdBlue
End Sub

Of course, you'd have to change the values for HighlightColorIndex to suit your needs.

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for assistance with installing macros.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

Once again my thanks; it's totally above and beyond the call of duty to provide such detailed help to a complete stranger online. I'll have a go with those macros and let you know how they work out.

Perfect! It worked fine - just what I wanted.

Thank you again.

You are welcome!

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional