Highlighting (Word 2003)

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Hello all, is there a way to automatically select and highlight every occurrence of the word “investigate” in my document? I know this can be done in Internet Explorer with the Google Toolbar.

Sincerely,

JMT

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To select all occurrences of “investigate”
– Select Edit | Find… or press Ctrl+F.
– Enter the wordinvestigate in the ‘Find what’ box.
– You may want to click More and tick the check box to find whole words only/
– Tick the check box “Mark All”. The “Find Next” button will change to “Find All”.

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And if you meant permanent highlighting (as if you used a marker pen):
– First, select the highlight color you want to use – click the little dropdown arrow on the right hand side of the Highlight button on the Formatting toolbar.
– Then, select Edit | Replace or press Ctrl+H.
– Enter investigate in the ‘Find what’ box.
– Enter ^& in the ‘Replace with’ box (this means that you’ll replace with whatever is in the ‘Find what box).
– Click More.
– If desired, tick the check box to find whole words only.
– With the insertion point in the ‘Replace with’ box, click Format.
– Select Highlight from the dropdown menu.
– Click ‘Replace All’.

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